Moreton Bay fig
Ficus macrophylla Pers.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 31 m
- wide
- 3.4 m
Moraceae
Also called Australian Banyan, Australian Moreton Bay Fig, Australian Banyan Fig, Australian Banyan Tree
Formerly Urostigma macrophyllum
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
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- E. Australia, Lord Howe I.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 31 m to 32 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 6–10 ft; Wikipedia 60–60 m
- Spread
- 2.1 m to 4.6 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- PinkRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Estonian
- suurelehine viigipuu
- Czech
- fíkovník velkolistý
- Japanese
- オオバゴムノキ, オーストラリアゴムノキ
- Croatian
- Australska smokva gumovača
- Chinese (China)
- 澳洲大叶榕
- Afrikaans
- Australiese baniaan, Australies baniaan
- Hebrew
- פיקוס גדול-עלים
- Chinese
- 澳洲大葉榕, 大叶无花果, 澳洲大叶榕
- French
- Figuier de la baie de Moreton
- Russian
- Фикус крупнолистный
- Polish
- Figowiec wielkolistny
- Swedish
- magnoliafikus, Magnoliafikus
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, 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 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Ficus macrophylla (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.