Ficus pleurocarpa
A fig endemic to the wet tropics of north-east Queensland that starts life as a hemiepiphyte in a rainforest tree and can become a tree of about 25 m. It is named for its long, ribbed, orange-red figs, which are edible when fully ripe. Indoors it is grown as a young plant, which wants warm, humid, bright conditions with a slightly drier, cooler winter.
Where it grows wild
Lowland and upland wet tropical rainforest. Seedlings usually germinate high in a host tree and send roots down to the ground, so young plants begin in bright, broken light in the canopy before the fig becomes a free-standing tree.
Sea level to about 1,000 m. Recorded elevations run from 10 to 1,095 m with a median of 715 m, so many records come from the Atherton Tableland uplands rather than the coast.
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