Ficus aurata | BotanAI

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Ficus aurata, photographed by Abu Hamas — fig. a Abu Hamas, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2013-07-11 / obs. 98675599

Ficus aurata, photographed by Nasser Halaweh — fig. c Nasser Halaweh, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60124323

Ficus aurata, photographed by Cheongweei Gan — fig. d Cheongweei Gan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172742194

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 5 botanical countries

Native distribution of Ficus aurata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Borneo	BOR	ASIA-TROPICAL
Malaya	MLY
Philippines	PHI
Sumatera	SUM
Vietnam	VIE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 73 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	22.3 °C	24.4 °C	24.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	28.6 °C	28.8 °C	30.8 °C
Annual rainfall	2,369 mm	2,527 mm	4,340 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	430 mm	517 mm	703 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 73 research-grade observations of Ficus aurata that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 11 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Covellia aurata Miq.
Ficus aurata var. densiserra (Miq.) Miq.
Ficus aurata var. longipilosa Corner
Ficus aurata var. palawanensis Corner
Ficus aurata var. pedunculata Corner
Ficus auriculifera Merr.
Ficus aurita var. auriculifera (Merr.) Corner
Ficus aurita var. celebica (Reinw. ex Blume) Corner
Ficus celebica Blume
Ficus chrysocarpa var. undulata H.J.P.Winkl.
Ficus densiserra Miq.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.