Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Ficus rubiginosa
Common name
Port Jackson Fig, Rusty Fig
Family
Moraceae
Where found
Forest, grassy areas, rocky sites, and near streams. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands.
Notes
Tree to 30 m high, often buttressed at the base. At first epiphytic or growing between or over rocks. Fruit fleshy. Bark dark brown or yellowish brown, with scattered blisters, often thinly scaly. Stems rusty-hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 3–20 cm long, 12–130 mm wide, thick and tough, upper surface hairless, lower surface brownish or rusty hairy, sometimes becoming almost hairless, margins entire. Male and female flowers on the same plant. Individual flowers very small, inside the figs. Figs usually paired, yellow turning red, usually prominently warty, more or less round, 7–20 mm in diameter, on stalks 1–19 mm long. Figs ripe Jan.-July.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Ficus~rubiginosa (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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