Ficus virgataReinw. ex Blume

Figwood

WFO wfo-0000690844 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ficus virgata, photographed by chiuluan
fig. a chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-15 / obs. 188269221
Ficus virgata, photographed by 葉子
fig. b 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 190247133
Ficus virgata, photographed by 胡正恆(Jackson Hu)
fig. c 胡正恆(Jackson Hu), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200440425
Ficus virgata, photographed by 葉子
fig. d 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 177996153
Ficus virgata, photographed by 葉子
fig. e 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 141656906
Ficus virgata, photographed by lansan
fig. f lansan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136938817
Ficus virgata, photographed by 葉子
fig. g 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 123785910
Ficus virgata, photographed by 葉子
fig. h 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 117439781

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
04992351
Filed as
Ficus virgata Reinw. ex Blume
Det. by
C. Sam 2021-01-29
Collected
G. M. Plunkett 2018-08-27
Origin
VU
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Ficus virgata is native: Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Lesser Sunda Is., Maluku, New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Queensland, Caroline Is., New Caledonia, Vanuatu TaiwanBismarck ArchipelagoBorneoLesser Sunda Is.MalukuNew GuineaPhilippinesSolomon Is.SulawesiQueenslandNew Caledonia Nansei-shotoCaroline Is.Vanuatu
Native distribution of Ficus virgata, 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
Bismarck Archipelago BIS ASIA-TROPICAL
Borneo BOR
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Maluku MOL
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Solomon Is. SOL
Sulawesi SUL
Caroline Is. CRL PACIFIC
New Caledonia NWC
Vanuatu VAN
Nansei-shoto NNS ASIA-TEMPERATE
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 1,946 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 10.7 °C 12.7 °C 18.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 27.7 °C 29.9 °C 31.3 °C
Annual rainfall 2,302 mm 3,260 mm 4,487 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 101 mm 528 mm 790 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 1,946 research-grade observations of Ficus virgata 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 21 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 cuspidato-longifolia Kaneh.
  • Ficus decaisneana Miq.
  • Ficus decaisneana var. firmula (Miq.) King
  • Ficus decaisneana var. trymatocarpa (Miq.) King
  • Ficus ellipsoidea Miq.
  • Ficus esmeralda F.M.Bailey
  • Ficus firmula Miq.
  • Ficus insularis Miq.
  • Ficus magnifica Elmer
  • Ficus philippinensis Miq.
  • Ficus philippinensis f. magnifica (Elmer) Sata
  • Ficus philippinensis f. obovata Sata
  • Ficus philippinensis f. setibracteata (Elmer) Sata
  • Ficus philippinensis var. sessilis Bureau
  • Ficus pinkiana F.Muell.
  • Ficus setibracteata Elmer
  • Ficus trematocarpa Miq.
  • Ficus trymatocarpa Miq.
  • Ficus virgata var. philippinensis (Miq.) Corner
  • Ficus virgata var. sessilis (Bureau) Corner
  • Urostigma virgatum (Reinw. ex Blume) Miq.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.