big fig tree

[philinsydney]

A big fig tree one of my friends shot near Coffs Harbour, NSW. I don't know which species.

[Tom in Tucson]

It reminds me of the giant Ficus macrophylla like the giants seen at Balboa park in San Diego. They are native to Australia.

Hi 93˚, Lo 52˚

[philinsydney]

This one doesn't look like F. macrophylla. It might be F. microcarpa/nitida.

[bromlad]

ficus superba subspecies henneana or ficus henneana depending on what botanist you use

known as deciduous fig or cedar fig in northern NSW

corner of victoria and prince sts grafton NSW - about 50 miles from coffs harbour

maybe australias largest street tree ??

[philinsydney]

Wow, thanks. I didn't know it was that well-known.

[Jonathan]

Bump!

Hey Phil it's Ficus virens I believe...I collected seed from this tree a few years ago.

Its labled as virens in Grafton and the seedlings key out as that species.

Very cool tree.

 

[tropicbreeze]

The NSW herbarium identified four street trees in Grafton as Ficus henneana. Not specifically this one but one was just down the street from it (Chataway Street). Apparently at some stage they must have been considered a good street tree. F. virens has a paler bark and the form is a little different.

This is a Google Street View of the same tree  2018

[Jonathan]

Pretty sure its virens, my young trees look very much like those on Atlas of Living Australia, thin almost translucent young leaves with an orangey tinge. Will take some pics tomorrow.

[Jonathan]

For what it's worth...

https://www.anbg.gov.au/photo/apii/id/a/39782

 

 

[tropicbreeze]

F virens are fairly common trees here, both out bush and as plantings in parks, etc. I have a couple on my place, another I had to get rid of as it started on a tall palm tree. The one in the image above isn't F. virens.

[happypalms]

I do believe it’s planted in the Main Street of Grafton nsw my home town 

[Jonathan]

I beg to differ @tropicbreeze, the photo I posted above was taken by John Wigley from the Aus National Bot Gardens, who probably knows his stuff.  Trees growing in different habitats or conditions can look deceptively different. Compare this open grown street tree in Grafton to the Curtain Fig in the rainforest near Yungaburra and you wouldn't know they were the same species.

Also, see picture below. 

On the right is virens grown from seed collected  by me from this tree in Grafton, on the left henneana from seed collected in Sydney. If you compare these to images posted on ALA, they look spot on.