Ficus obliqua
The small-leaved fig is a strangler fig of subtropical and littoral rainforest from southern New South Wales north through Queensland to New Guinea and the southwest Pacific islands. It starts life as a hemiepiphyte on another tree or a rock and becomes a large buttressed tree. At home it is grown as a bonsai or bright-light houseplant that prefers warm, fairly humid conditions with a mild, drier winter.
Where it grows wild
Subtropical, warm temperate and littoral rainforest, mainly in coastal areas and nearby ranges. Seeds germinate on host trees or rocks and send roots to the ground, eventually forming a tree 15–60 m tall with a wide crown and buttresses. Young hemiepiphytes grow in the bright, partly filtered light of the host canopy.
The 56 wild records with elevation span 2–930 m with a median of 221 m. It is mainly a lowland and foothill tree.
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