Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Ficus henneana
Common name
Deciduous fig
Family
Moraceae
Where found
Rainforest and rocky sites. Coast and ranges north from Milton.
Notes
Tree to 35 m high, with buttresses at the base, more or less deciduous. A strangler, first an epiphyte on the host tree, and then forming a massive trunk of joined roots around the host tree. Bark grey, smooth. Stems hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 7–15 cm long, 20–60 mm wide, hairless, relatively thin, tips mostly bluntly pointed, bases slightly cordate, leaf stalks sometimes with a joint at the top. Male and female flowers on the same plant. Individual flowers very small, inside the figs. Figs more or less round, 15–25 mm in diameter, yellowish, turning reddish or purple-black, with pale spots. Figs single, ripe January -July.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Ficus~henneana (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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