Ficus bubuWarb.

WFO wfo-0000687607 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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 bubu, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps
fig. a Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-05 / obs. 199614363
Ficus bubu, photographed by Rosemary Harrison
fig. b Rosemary Harrison, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 156501154
Ficus bubu, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps
fig. c Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / obs. 199614341
Ficus bubu, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps
fig. d Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / obs. 199614256
Ficus bubu, photographed by Rosemary Harrison
fig. e Rosemary Harrison, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 156501186
Ficus bubu, photographed by Rosemary Harrison
fig. f Rosemary Harrison, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 156501221
Ficus bubu, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps
fig. g Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / obs. 199614289
Ficus bubu, photographed by Rosemary Harrison
fig. h Rosemary Harrison, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 156501254

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Ficus bubu is native: Angola, Cameroon, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe AngolaCameroonDR CongoEquatorial GuineaEswatiniGabonIvory CoastKenyaKwaZulu-NatalMalawiMozambiqueNamibiaTanzaniaTogoUgandaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Ficus bubu, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Angola ANG AFRICA
Cameroon CMN
DR Congo ZAI
Equatorial Guinea EQG
Eswatini SWZ
Gabon GAB
Ivory Coast IVO
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Namibia NAM
Tanzania TAN
Togo TOG
Uganda UGA
Zimbabwe ZIM

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.

Also published as 2 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 kyimbilensis Mildbr.
  • Ficus pachypleura Warb.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. 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.