Ficus celebensis
A tree fig up to about 25 m tall that grows wild only on the Minahasa Peninsula of northern Sulawesi, where it is rare and assessed as Endangered. Its narrow, drooping leaves and weeping branches have made it a street and garden tree in Singapore, Hong Kong, Hawaii, Florida and Brazil. Indoors it grows as a potted weeping shrub, like a finer-leaved Ficus benjamina.
Where it grows wild
Wild specimens are few. One recent collection in Bogani Nani Wartabone National Park is labelled 'dry-land forest', and an early introduction came from Mount Klabat in Minahasa. In cultivation it makes a terrestrial tree with pendulous, rather bamboo-like foliage and white latex.
The only wild elevation in GBIF is 350 m. Minahasa's lowland and hill forest, with Mount Klabat rising above it, suggests lowland to lower-montane conditions, but the elevation range is essentially undocumented.
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