Ficus macrophylla
naturalizedMoraceae

Ficus macrophylla

Moreton Bay fig

Naturalized (non-native)non-native

Introduced and now reproducing on its own in the wild.

Ficus macrophylla, commonly known as the Moreton Bay fig or Australian banyan, is a large evergreen banyan tree of the family Moraceae native to eastern Australia, from the Wide Bay–Burnett region in the north to the Illawarra in New South Wales, as well as Lord Howe Island. Its common name is derived from Moreton Bay in Queensland, Australia. It is best known for its imposing buttress roots. As Ficus macrophylla is a strangler fig, seed germination...

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Seasonality

Only 1 phenology-annotated observation exist for this species in Hawaiʻi — too few to describe a season. No window is inferred.

Gallery · 7 · iNaturalist
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Where documented · 47 ahupuaʻa
documented occurrences · iNaturalist + GBIF · iNaturalist 153 · GBIF 32 records