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Other Little published: much of this is inferred from related species

Ficus subcordata

A banyan fig from Indochina, Malesia, New Guinea and the south-west Pacific, which usually starts as a strangler high in a host tree and grows into a canopy tree up to about 30 m tall. It is a plant of warm lowland forest, from secondary forest to limestone hills, and wants heat, strong light and a large pot, or bonsai treatment, in cultivation.

Ficus subcordata
Photo: Photo by David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day Warm-growingTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Ordinary room humidityBand in Plantistry
Light Full sunDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
No rest period

Where it grows wild

A hemiepiphytic strangler fig that germinates in the canopy of a host tree, sends roots to the ground and can become a free-standing tree. Records come from secondary forest, partly disturbed evergreen and bamboo forest, heath forest and open logging tracks. On thinly forested limestone hills in Vietnam it grows as a shrub on rock.

Records with an elevation come from about 130–500 m, a lowland species.

Indochina (Vietnam, Thailand)Malesia (Sumatra, Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia)New GuineaVanuatu

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✓ Substrate and airflow
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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC BY-SA 4.0 licence, unmodified.