Ficus variegataBlume

WFO wfo-0000690793 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ficus variegata, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. a Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-07-05 / obs. 142776450
Ficus variegata, photographed by Rejoice Gassah
fig. b Rejoice Gassah, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102860952
Ficus variegata, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. c Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 94287823
Ficus variegata, photographed by Carrie Seltzer
fig. d Carrie Seltzer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60121121
Ficus variegata, photographed by Cheongweei Gan
fig. e Cheongweei Gan, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 59431528
Ficus variegata, photographed by Cheongweei Gan
fig. f Cheongweei Gan, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 59431524
Ficus variegata, photographed by Peter Brastow
fig. g Peter Brastow, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 54177780
Ficus variegata, photographed by coenobita
fig. h coenobita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 30917552

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
89961
Filed as
Ficus variegata Blume
Det. by
J. P. Mogea 1994-01-01
Collected
C. M. Peters 1994-01-09
Origin
ID
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 27 botanical countries

Regions where Ficus variegata is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, Queensland China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanTaiwanAssamBangladeshBismarck ArchipelagoBorneoCambodiaIndiaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarNew GuineaPhilippinesSolomon Is.SulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamQueensland Nansei-shotoAndaman Is.Nicobar Is.
Native distribution of Ficus variegata, 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
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Assam ASS
Bangladesh BAN
Bismarck Archipelago BIS
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
New Guinea NWG
Nicobar Is. NCB
Philippines PHI
Solomon Is. SOL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Nansei-shoto NNS
Taiwan TAI
Queensland QLD AUSTRALASIA

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 760 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 11.5 °C 17.5 °C 24.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 27.6 °C 29.0 °C 30.7 °C
Annual rainfall 1,960 mm 2,444 mm 3,820 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 82 mm 167 mm 603 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 760 research-grade observations of Ficus variegata 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 33 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 agusanensis Elmer
  • Ficus amboinensis Kostel.
  • Ficus cerifera Blume
  • Ficus ceriflua Jungh.
  • Ficus chlorocarpa Benth.
  • Ficus compressitora Elmer
  • Ficus cordifolia Blume
  • Ficus domestica Zipp. ex Miq.
  • Ficus ehretioides F.Muell. ex Benth.
  • Ficus garciae Elmer
  • Ficus glochidiifolia Hayata
  • Ficus gummiflua Miq.
  • Ficus ilangoides Elmer
  • Ficus integrifolia Elmer
  • Ficus konishii Hayata
  • Ficus laevigata Blanco
  • Ficus latsoni Elmer
  • Ficus paucinervia Merr.
  • Ficus subopaca Miq.
  • Ficus subracemosa Blume
  • Ficus sum Gagnep.
  • Ficus sycomoroides Miq.
  • Ficus tenimbrensis S.Moore
  • Ficus variegata f. paucinervia (Merr.) Sata

and 9 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.