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Ficus superba
Also called Cedar Fig, Deciduous Fig, Sand Fig
In Singapore: Sea Fig, Cedar Fig, 雀榕 (Native to Singapore, Endangered)
8 NParks heritage trees in Singapore: Found in; Found in Junction of Bedok Rd and Upper Changi Rd junction, East Village Car-park (former Changi Complex); Found in Bedok Rise S/L, near fence; footpath; Found in At Bedok Food Centre Car Park, opposite Eastwood Centre; Found in; Found in; Found in; Found in
Ficus superba is a fig tree native to tropical Asia that can grow as a single-stemmed tree or start as a strangling hemi-epiphyte on other trees. It is a large forest species, so it is rarely grown as a houseplant.
Ficus superba, also known as sea fig or deciduous fig, is a hemiepiphytic tree of genus Ficus. It is a tree native
to Indochina (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam), southern India, and parts of Malesia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, the Lesser Sunda Islands, Sulawesi, and the Maluku Islands including Seram).
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[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ficus superba by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
Pet safety from the ASPCA toxic and non-toxic plant lists.
