Ficus watkinsiana
“Strangler Fig”
TREE TO 35 METRES TALLHuge, spreading buttressed fig which can grow as a strangler or directly in soil. Thick glossy green leaves & large to 6cm long, very tasty, edible purple fruit is traditional bush tucker and relished by birds, bats & possums. Good indoor plant.
| Suitability | |
|---|---|
| Category | Tall Trees: 10m & Over |
| Family | Moraceae |
| Aspect | Full Sun / Filtered Sun |
| Soil | Clay, Moist, Sandy |
| Habitat | Dry Rainforest |
| Features | |
| Bush Food Plants, Butterfly Plants, Clay Tolerant Species, Flying Fox Food Plants, Frost Tolerant Plants, Indoor Plants, Shade Providing Trees, Windbreaks | |
| Localities | |
| Albion, Banyo, Deagon, Doboy, Enoggera Catchment, Fitzgibbon, Ipswich area, Lindum, Logan City, Lytton, Mayne, Meeandah, Myrtletown, Newstead, Northgate, Nudgee Beach, Pine Rivers, Pinkenba, Sunshine Coast district, Taigum, Woolloongabba, Zillmere | |
