Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Ficus pumila
Common name
Creeping fig
Family
Moraceae
Where found
Occasionally naturalised. Mostly in the Sydney area, rarely elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced woody climber to 4 m high, climbing by adventitious roots. Fruit fleshy, not edible. Young stems covered in soft hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, surfaces more or less rough, the leaves of climbing stems 1–3 cm long, bases cordate, with one side longer than the other, stalks short; leaves of spreading fruiting branches 4–10 cm long, stalks 1–2 cm long. Male and female flowers on different plants. Individual flowers very small, inside the figs. Figs single, grey to mauve turning brownish, or yellowish green to pinkish, oval, 40–50 mm long.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Ficus~pumila (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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