Cape Fig
Ficus sur Forssk.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 8.5 m
- wide
- —
Moraceae
Also called Broom Cluster Fig, Broomcluster Fig, Broom-Cluster Fig, Bush Fig, Cape Wild Fig
Formerly Ficus beniensis, Ficus brassii, Ficus capensis, Ficus clethrophylla, and 20 more
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
- Africa to SW. Arabian Pen.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 5.0 m to 12 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (11)
- Afrikaans
- besemtrosvy, besembosvy, besem-trosvy
- Finnish
- punttiviikuna
- root
- mogo, mogoyo, mokoyo
- Dutch
- Kaapse wilde vijgenboom
- German
- Besen-Feige
- Hebrew
- פיקוס הכף
- Russian
- Фикус сюр
- Swedish
- kapfikus
- Chinese (China)
- 扫帚榕
- Slovak
- figovník huňatoplodý
- Chinese
- 南非榕
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
- 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 sur (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.