Ficus pertusa
A widespread neotropical fig, from western Mexico to Paraguay, that grows into a tree up to about 25 m tall with small globose edible figs. It belongs to the fig group whose members often start as hemiepiphytes, and it spans dry deciduous forest to moist forest from sea level to over 2000 m, so it is adaptable. Indoors it wants bright light and warmth, with a slightly drier winter.
Where it grows wild
Lowland and premontane forests, including seasonally dry deciduous forest on Mexico's Pacific slope, gallery forest in the Brazilian cerrado and moist forest in Colombia and Central America. It is also planted as a shade tree. The sources read describe it only as a tree; whether wild plants commonly start as hemiepiphytes was not confirmed.
545 records carry an elevation, spanning 3–2333 m, median 877 m.
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