Ficus auriculata Lour.

Tree up to 15(-20) m tall, becoming shortly buttressed. Leafy twigs 2-10 mm thick, puberulous to subtomentose or glabrous; internodes hollow (or solid); periderm flaking off or persistent. Leaves spirally arranged to subdistichous; lamina cordiform to ovate or to suborbicular, (6-)10-30(-40) by (3-)7-25(-32) cm, symmetric, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, apex short-acuminate to acute, base cordate to rounded (to broadly cuneate), margin coarsely dentate to denticulate to subentire; upper surface glabrous or sparsely puberulous on the main veins, smooth, lower surface densely to sparsely puberulous on the veins or only on the main veins or glabrous; lateral veins 3-7 pairs, basal pair up to 1/3-2/3 the length of the lamina, (usually) branched, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in the slit-shaped extensions of the axils of the (main) basal lateral veins; petiole 2-15(-30) cm long, whitish to brownish puberulous or glabrous, epidermis flaking off; stipules 1.5-3 cm long, densely to sparsely whitish to brownish appressed-puberulous to subsericeous or glabrous, caducous. Figs (cauliflorous) on clustered, short (branched) leafless branchlets on the trunk and main branches; peduncle 1-8 cm long; basal bracts 3, (2-)4-7 mm long, persistent; receptacle subpyriform to subglobose to depressed-globose, 2-6 cm diam. when dry, up to 10 cm diam. when fresh, 0-1.5 cm long stipitate, densely to sparsely brown to whitish puberulous to subtomentose to subvelutinous or subglabrous, with numerous strong to weak longitudinal ridges, occasionally with 1 or a few lateral bracts, red(dish), red-brown, orange, or purple at maturity, apex ± concave to flat, ostiole (4-)6-10(-12) mm diam. with a prominent rosette of ostiolar bracts; wall 1-7 mm thick when dry; internal hairs minute and white or absent. Perianth of the pistillate flower tubular to 3-parted; style of the long-styled flowers glabrous or hairy.

A tropical plant. It needs light and humidity. It grows up to 700-800 m altitude. It is most common about 100-400 m altitude. It often grows along rivers. In Nepal it grows up to 2000 m altitude. In China it grows in moist valleys in forests between 100-1700 m altitude and sometimes to 2100 m in S China. It suits hardiness zones 10-12. In XTBG Yunnan.

The ripe fruit are eaten raw. They are sweet. They are also made into jams and used in curries. Green fruit are used as a vegetable. The young leaves can be eaten raw. They are also boiled and used as a vegetable.

Plants can be grown from seed or cuttings. It can be cut back and regrow. Hand pollination can probably increase fruit size. It can be grown by marcottage.