Ficus trichopoda
An African fig of swamps, riverbanks and waterlogged ground, found from West Africa through Central and East Africa to KwaZulu-Natal and Madagascar. It grows as a tree or dense thicket with aerial roots in permanently wet soil and is a protected tree in South Africa. At home it suits a large, warm, very bright spot with a pot that never dries out.
Where it grows wild
Specimen labels describe swamp and groundwater forest on alluvial sand, gallery forest along rivers, forest edges and swampy places, and, less often, wooded savanna and dry forest. In South Africa it forms stands in swamp forest with Syzygium cordatum. As a canopy or thicket tree it grows in full sun, while young plants start in the shade of the swamp forest.
Mostly lowland. The 26 GBIF records with an elevation span 4–1150 m, most of them near sea level.
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