Ficus membranacea
A Neotropical fig, known in Mexico as amate, that starts life as a hemiepiphyte on another tree and becomes a tree 10–30 m tall. It grows in tropical deciduous forest, gallery forest and secondary growth from Mexico and the Greater Antilles to Ecuador and Peru. In a pot it is a sun-loving, fast-growing fig that expects a warm, bright wet season and a drier, cooler rest.
Where it grows wild
It grows in tropical deciduous (dry) forest, gallery forest along rivers, and secondary vegetation. Seedlings usually establish in the crowns or crevices of host trees or on rock, send roots down to the ground, and eventually become free-standing trees. Collectors in Ecuador also record it in lower montane secondary forest.
Reported from 25 to 2000 m. GBIF records with elevations cluster around 400–1500 m in western Mexico, with some near sea level on the coast and in Cuba.
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