Ficus panurensis
A strangler fig from lowland Amazonia and the Guianas. It starts life as an epiphyte high in a tree and later becomes a free-standing tree 10–30 m tall, with white latex and green, often speckled figs. In cultivation it is a warm, bright, humid tropical fig, grown in a pot the way you would grow other hemiepiphytic Ficus.
Where it grows wild
Collectors mostly describe it as a hemiepiphyte, and sometimes as a tree 10–30 m tall. It grows in dense terra-firme forest on plateaus, in várzea and low-lying 'baixio' forest, on river margins, and in Dicymbe forest and white-sand forest in Guyana. Some labels call it heliophilous (light-loving). Seedlings start in the canopy of a host tree, where light is much brighter than on the forest floor.
It grows in the lowlands, mostly from about 50 to 500 m. The occasional record near 900 m in the Andean foothills of Colombia and Peru is at its upper limit.
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