Ficus uncinata
A Bornean fig that grows as a shrub or small tree to about 8 m but is best known for sending runners up to 10 m across the forest floor, where it bears its pink to brownish-purple figs at ground level. It grows in lowland and hill rainforest, often along streams, and reaches into montane forest. Grow it as a warm, humid, shaded rainforest understorey plant; it is a greenhouse or large-conservatory subject rather than a windowsill plant.
Where it grows wild
Understorey of primary and secondary lowland and hill rainforest, often beside streams, extending into mountain forest. The figs form on stolons that run along the ground surface, and their hooked, spine-like bracts are thought to stop ground-dwelling animals such as pigs, deer and rodents from swallowing them whole.
GBIF records span 20–1600 m with a median of 200 m (11 records with elevations), so it is mainly a lowland plant. Wikipedia gives mountain forest up to 2000 m.
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