Ficus botryocarpa Miq.

Tree up to 14 m tall. Leafy twigs 2-4 mm thick, brown strigose to hirtellous, the longer stiff hairs intermixed with shorter and softer white hairs, or with hairs of about equal length and whitish appressed-puberulous to strigillose or to whitish (to brownish) hirtellous, often with nodal glands; internodes hollow or solid; periderm persistent. Leaves (sub)distichous or (sub)opposite; lamina oblong to subobovate to elliptic or oblanceolate, 8-20(-26) by 3-7(-12) cm, ± asymmetric, chartaceous, drying greyish or brown, apex acuminate to subacute, base cuneate to obtuse (to rounded), margin (sub)entire or towards the apex denticulate; upper surface rather densely to very sparsely whitish strigillose to subhispidulous or (sub)glabrous, ± scabrous or smooth, lower surface brownish strigose to hirtellous on the main veins, the longer stiff hairs intermixed with shorter and softer white hairs, white, appressed-to patent-puberulous on the smaller veins or the hairs of about equal length and whitish appressed-puberulous to strigillose on the veins or whitish to brownish hirtellous to puberulous on the veins, smooth or scabridulous, cystoliths above and beneath; lateral veins (4-)6-10 pairs, none or some of them branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in slit-shaped extensions of the axils of 1 or 2 lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina, or also small ones in the axils of the basal lateral veins, or the glands absent; petiole 0.4-2(-2.5) cm long, brown to whitish hirtellous or whitish appressed-puberulous to strigillose, the epidermis persistent; stipules (0.6-)1-2.5(-2.8) cm long, brown hirtellous or partly white appressed-puberulous or entirely whitish to yellowish to brownish appressed-puberulous to subsericeous, caducous (or subpersistent). Figs cauliflorous on up to 1 m long branched branchlets with caducous or subpersistent stipules, on the older wood; peduncle 0.4-2.5 cm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate (or scattered), 1-2.5 mm long; receptacle subglobose to obovoid to subpyriform to depressed-globose, 1-2.5 cm diam. when dry, 2-4 cm diam. when fresh, non-stipitate or sometimes up to 0.4 cm long stipitate, brownish to whitish puberulous to hirtellous, without lateral bracts, faintly (6-20-)ribbed, greenish or whitish (with yellowish spots) at maturity, apex flat to concave or to slightly convex, ostiole (2.5-)3-6 mm diam., flat or ± prominent; internal hairs abundant, brownish or whitish, longer than the flowers.

A tropical plant. They are found in the hills and forests of the Philippines along river banks at 200 m altitude in Bataan and Zambales. It grows along streams and can be up to 1,700 m above sea level.

The freshly cut stems give drinking water. The ripe fruit are eaten.

Can be grown by seedlings.