Ficus grossularioides
A small, fast-growing pioneer fig tree or shrub of disturbed ground in the lowlands of peninsular Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. Its toothed, often deeply lobed leaves are dark green above and whitish and velvety beneath, and its small gooseberry-like figs grow along the twigs. It wants the conditions of a sunny forest edge in the humid tropics: warm all year, bright light and evenly moist soil.
Where it grows wild
A dioecious shrub or small tree up to about 13 m that colonises forest edges and disturbed land: dry disturbed sandy soils, kerangas (heath) forest, swamp margins, riverbanks, sandy coastal forest, rice fields and oil-palm plantations. As a pioneer it grows in open, sunny or lightly shaded places rather than under closed forest.
Mostly lowland: literature gives up to about 400 m and the GBIF records have a median of 150 m; a few records go up to 1350 m.
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