Fiddle-leaf fig
ఫైకస్ లైరెట
Ficus lyrata Warb.
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 6.2 m
- wide
- —
Moraceae
Also called Fiddle-leaf Fig, Fiddleleaf fig
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Hemiepiphytic treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- W. & WC. Trop. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 4.8 m to 7.5 mRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension 2–10 ft; Wikipedia 9–12 m
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- 4.5 °C (USDA zone 11a)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension -1.1 °C; Wikipedia 10 °C
Not known yet: spread, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Árbol lira, Lirata, Pandurata
- Chinese
- 大琴葉榕, 琴葉榕, 提琴葉榕
- Estonian
- lüüra-viigipuu
- Czech
- fíkovník lyrový
- Japanese
- カシワバゴムノキ
- Indonesian
- Kimunding
- Chinese (China)
- 大琴叶榕
- Lithuanian
- Lyralapis fikusas
- Dutch
- Vioolbladplant
- Hebrew
- פיקוס כינורי
- Russian
- Фикус лировидный
- Thai
- ไทรใบสัก
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 2.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Ficus lyrata (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.