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Other Little published: much of this is inferred from related species

Ficus lacor

A large fig tree of the Himalayan foothills, north-east India, Bangladesh and Indochina, valued in Nepal for fodder and for its young leaf buds, which are pickled. Indoors it can only be grown as a young tree or bonsai. It needs strong light, a warm, wet summer and a cooler, drier winter like the monsoon climate it comes from.

Ficus lacor
Photo: Krish Dulal, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day IntermediateTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Dry airBand in Plantistry
Light Full sunDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
Expects a seasonal restGrows in the ground

Where it grows wild

A large tree of lowland and foothill forest, secondary forest and farmland. One Vietnamese specimen label gives 'open secondary forests' on dry rocky slopes and a tree 15–20 m tall. Like its relatives in the Ficus virens group it may start life as a hemiepiphyte on another tree or on rock, but mature trees are free-standing.

GBIF specimens range from about 50–475 m in southern Vietnam and 270 m in Nepal to about 1,150 m in Hunan; in Nepal it is a plant of the lowlands and mid-hills.

NepalIndiaBangladeshMyanmarLaosCambodiaVietnam

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates
✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it
✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light
✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it
✓ Substrate and airflow
✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC BY-SA 3.0 licence, unmodified.