Ficus fraseriMiq.

WFO wfo-0000688386 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ficus fraseri, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. a Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205070210
Ficus fraseri, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. b Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 202357329
Ficus fraseri, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. c Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 195859471
Ficus fraseri, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. d Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 195472293
Ficus fraseri, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. e Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 186798012
Ficus fraseri, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. f Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 185256861
Ficus fraseri, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. g Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 180049373
Ficus fraseri, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. h Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 177003976

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Ficus fraseri is native: Laos, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, New Caledonia, Vanuatu LaosNew South WalesNorthern TerritoryQueenslandNew Caledonia Vanuatu
Native distribution of Ficus fraseri, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
New South Wales NSW AUSTRALASIA
Northern Territory NTA
Queensland QLD
New Caledonia NWC PACIFIC
Vanuatu VAN
Laos LAO 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 362 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 6.9 °C 10.2 °C 16.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.6 °C 27.6 °C 29.6 °C
Annual rainfall 910 mm 1,402 mm 1,827 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 100 mm 171 mm 228 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 362 research-grade observations of Ficus fraseri 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 8 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 aspera var. abbreviata Miq.
  • Ficus aspera var. subglabra Benth.
  • Ficus proteus Bureau
  • Ficus proteus var. dentata Bureau
  • Ficus proteus var. lobata Bureau
  • Ficus stenocarpa F.Muell. ex Benth.
  • Ficus stephanocarpa var. subglabra (Benth.) Maiden & Betche
  • Ficus subglabra F.Muell.

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.