Rock fig, rusty fig
Ficus rubiginosa, Fam. Moraceae
Small to large tree with a spreading canopy, can be a strangler. Monoecious.
| Weed Category: | |
| Weed: | No |
| Form or habit: | Small tree, Med tree, Large Tree |
| Family: | Moraceae |
| Leaf: | Simple Alternate Simple, alternate, entire, ovate, elliptic or occasionally obovate, 4-19 x 1-13cm. Petiole 0.7-8cm long with stipules 2-7cm or more. Thick texture; green and sometimes hairy above but rusty hairy below (from where its common name is derived). |
| Flower conspicuous: | Inconspicuous |
| Flower colour: | |
| Flower description: | Flowers are enclosed within the fig itself and generally pollinated by specific wasps. |
| Fruit conspicuous: | Conspicuous |
| Fruit colour: |
Purple, Orange, Yellow, Red |
| Fruit: | Fleshy |
| Fruit description: | Figs are 0.7-2cm in diameter warty or dotted. Yellow or orange turning red and sometimes purple when ripe; any month. |
| Habitat: | Beach scrub, gallery (riverine or riparian) forest, littoral rainforest, open forest, woodland. |
| Distribution | Qld and NSW. |
| Food source for: | Fruit eaten by a large range of birds. Larval food plant of the Common Crow and Moonbeam Butterflies and native Fig Moth. |
| Toxicity: | No toxicity known |
| Origin: | Australia |
| Notes: | |
| Information sources: | Melzer R. & Plumb J. (2007) Plants of Capricornia. |
