Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Ficus obliqua
Common name
Small-leaved fig
Family
Moraceae
Where found
Rainforest and near streams. North of Tathra. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands.
Notes
Strangling tree to 50 m high, at first epiphytic on the host plant, later with massive trunks of coalesced roots around the host plant. Base widely buttressed. Bark grey or greyish brown, almost smooth, with horizontal lines of elongated lenticels. Young stems hairless or sparsely hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 3–13 cm long, 10–60 mm wide, moderately thick, green and hairless, margins entire. Male and female flowers on the same plant. Individual flowers very small, inside the figs. Figs paired, yellow turning orange with dark red spots, approximately globular, mostly 6–10 mm long and wide. Figs ripe Apr.–June.
Ficus obliqua var. obliqua in PlantNET.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Ficus~obliqua (accessed 20 April 2021)
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