Ficus auriculata (Roxburgh fig)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ficus auriculata, photographed by Ben Machado — fig. a Ben Machado, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-12 / obs. 183671005

Ficus auriculata, photographed by S.MORE — fig. b S.MORE, CC0 1.0 / obs. 174724499

Ficus auriculata, photographed by T R Shankar Raman — fig. c T R Shankar Raman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179093452

Ficus auriculata, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng — fig. d Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 54044350

Ficus auriculata, photographed by Rejoice Gassah — fig. e Rejoice Gassah, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 62709928

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium: The New York Botanical Garden
Accession: 201926
Filed as: Ficus auriculata Lour.
Det. by: J. B. Walker 1995-01-01
Collected: J. B. Walker 1995-11-09
Origin: US
The sheet: View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 17 botanical countries

Native distribution of Ficus auriculata, 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
Assam	ASS	ASIA-TROPICAL
Bangladesh	BAN
Cambodia	CBD
East Himalaya	EHM
India	IND
Laos	LAO
Malaya	MLY
Myanmar	MYA
Nepal	NEP
Pakistan	PAK
Thailand	THA
Vietnam	VIE
West Himalaya	WHM
China South-Central	CHC	ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast	CHS
Hainan	CHH
Tibet	CHT

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 739 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	2.8 °C	13.1 °C	24.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	23.1 °C	30.5 °C	34.7 °C
Annual rainfall	649 mm	2,144 mm	3,891 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	7 mm	88 mm	549 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 739 research-grade observations of Ficus auriculata 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 14 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 macrophylla Miq.
Ficus beipeiensis S.S.Chang
Ficus hainanensis Merr. & Chun
Ficus hamiltoniana Wall.
Ficus macrocarpa H.Lév. & Vaniot
Ficus macrophylla Roxb. & Buch.-Ham. ex Sm.
Ficus oligodon Miq.
Ficus pomifera Wall.
Ficus regia Miq.
Ficus rotundifolia Roxb.
Ficus roxburghii Wall. ex Steud.
Ficus sclerocarpa Griff.
Ficus scleroptera Griff.
Tremotis cordata Raf.

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.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
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.