Ficus sarmentosaBuch.-Ham. ex Sm.

WFO wfo-0000690200 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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 sarmentosa, photographed by chiuluan
fig. a chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-02-12 / obs. 179375335
Ficus sarmentosa, photographed by chiuluan
fig. b chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179375252
Ficus sarmentosa, photographed by chiuluan
fig. c chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179375755
Ficus sarmentosa, photographed by chiuluan
fig. d chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179375239

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 17 botanical countries

Regions where Ficus sarmentosa is native: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Tibet, Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Vietnam, West Himalaya China North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanJapanTaiwanTibetAssamBangladeshEast HimalayaMyanmarNepalPakistanVietnamWest Himalaya KoreaNansei-shoto
Native distribution of Ficus sarmentosa, 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
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
Nansei-shoto NNS
Taiwan TAI
Tibet CHT
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Bangladesh BAN
East Himalaya EHM
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM

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 683 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 4.1 °C 11.1 °C 13.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 21.6 °C 28.7 °C 30.7 °C
Annual rainfall 2,209 mm 3,493 mm 4,615 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 133 mm 371 mm 810 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 683 research-grade observations of Ficus sarmentosa 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 45 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 arisanensis Hayata
  • Ficus baileyi Hutch.
  • Ficus bodinieri H.Lév. & Vaniot
  • Ficus botryoides H.Lév. & Vaniot
  • Ficus cabur Buch.-Ham. ex Sm.
  • Ficus chaffajoni H.Lév. & Vaniot
  • Ficus duclouxii H.Lév. & Vaniot
  • Ficus fauriei H.Lév. & Vaniot
  • Ficus fortunati H.Lév. & Vaniot
  • Ficus foveolata (Miq.) Wall. ex Miq.
  • Ficus foveolata var. arisanensis (Hayata) Kudô
  • Ficus foveolata var. eburnea Gagnep.
  • Ficus foveolata var. henryi King ex D.Oliv.
  • Ficus foveolata var. impressa (Champ. ex Benth.) King
  • Ficus foveolata var. nipponica (Franch. & Sav.) King
  • Ficus foveolata var. thunbergii (Maxim.) King
  • Ficus hederifolia H.Lév.
  • Ficus impressa Champ. ex Benth.
  • Ficus kwangtungensis Merr.
  • Ficus lacrymans H.Lév.
  • Ficus leucodermis Hand.-Mazz.
  • Ficus leucodermis var. saxicola Hand.-Mazz.
  • Ficus longepedata H.Lév. & Vaniot
  • Ficus luducca Roxb.

and 21 more.

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.