Ficus benguetensis

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ficus benguetensis, photographed by 葉子 — fig. b 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 177539437

Ficus benguetensis, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi) — fig. c 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165250542

Ficus benguetensis, photographed by Takaaki Hattori — fig. f Takaaki Hattori, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112765550

Ficus benguetensis, photographed by Jacy Chen — fig. h Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109532929

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Native distribution of Ficus benguetensis, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Nansei-shoto	NNS	ASIA-TEMPERATE
Taiwan	TAI
Philippines	PHI	ASIA-TROPICAL

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 1,938 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	9.1 °C	12.1 °C	15.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	26.1 °C	29.0 °C	31.1 °C
Annual rainfall	2,445 mm	3,701 mm	4,846 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	119 mm	543 mm	849 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,938 research-grade observations of Ficus benguetensis 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 17 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.

Ficus benguetensis f. leytensis (Elmer) Sata
Ficus benguetensis f. negrosensis (Elmer) Sata
Ficus benguetensis f. urdanetensis (Elmer) Sata
Ficus benguetensis var. leytensis Elmer
Ficus benguetensis var. negrosensis Elmer
Ficus cuernosensis Elmer
Ficus cuernosensis var. elongata Sata
Ficus fistulosa f. benguetensis (Merr.) T.S.Liu & J.C.Liao
Ficus harlandii var. grandifolia Sata
Ficus harlandii var. kotoensis (Hayata) Sata
Ficus kotoensis Hayata
Ficus maquilingensis Elmer
Ficus miyagii Koidz.
Ficus ochobiensis Hayata
Ficus peabodyi Elmer
Ficus urdanetensis Elmer
Ficus wenzelii Merr.

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.