Ficus macrophylla —Moreton Bay Fig—MORACEAE
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Habitat—In coastal rainforest of all types, widely cultivated. Distribution—North from the Shoalhaven River, New South Wales and Queensland. Description—Large spreading tree, epiphytic and strangling in early stages, trunks becoming massive with large buttresses; young stems glabrous. Local occurrences—
Bennett Head,
Black Head,
Brown's Creek Bicentennial Gardens,
Burgess Beach,
Cliff Road,
Forster Cemetery,
Forster Park and Marina,
Forster/Tuncurry Streets,
Little Street,
Penenton Creek and Wetlands,
Queen Elizabeth Park Taree,
Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney,
Saltwater Nature Reserve and
Second Head
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Leaves.— Simple, alternate, pointed rolled stipules, latex present, ovate to elliptic or oblong, 10 to 25 cm long, 7 to 10 cm wide, upper surface green and glabrous, lower surface rusty—coloured due to covering of minute scales, often glabrescent with age; petiole 5 to 10 cm long; stipules usually 3 to 10 cm long, finely hairy to glabrous. |
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Fruit—Figs ± globose, 20 to 25 mm diam., orange turning purple at maturity; stalk 10 to 20 mm long; paired or solitary. Ripe.—Throughout year. |