Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Ficus coronata
Common name
Creek sandpaper fig, Sandpaper fig
Family
Moraceae
Where found
Rainforest, open areas, rocky areas, and along streams. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 15 m high. Fruit fleshy, edible. Bark dark brown, smooth except for raised horizontal lines. Stems densely hairy, bristly, becoming hairless and rough, with scars from dropped leaves and stipules, and raised lenticels. Leaves alternating up the stems, mostly 5–13 cm long, 20–80 mm wide, larger and often lobed on young growth, both surfaces rough, tips gradually tapered, wedge-shaped, or rounded; margins toothed or with minute scallops; bases often with one side longer than the other, sometimes cordate. Male and female flowers on different plants. Individual flowers very small, inside the figs. Figs purple-black when mature, oval to globular, 15-25 mm long, hairy. Figs single at the bases of the leaves or in clusters on the trunk and older branches, ripe Jan.-June.
Vulnerable Vic. Listed in Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Ficus~coronata (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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