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A fig. It is a tree which grows pressed against rocks. It can grow to 18 m high although it is usually much smaller. It can spread 15 m wide. The trunk is slender and smooth. The leaves are smooth and 11 cm long by 5 cm wide. They are oblong with a rounded base which can be heart shaped. They taper to a point. There are 5-7 pairs of easily seen veins. The fruit are small and roundish and purple brown when ripe. They are slightly hairy and have very short stalks. They are mostly in pairs in the axils of leaves. They are edible.
Leaf lamina lanceolate to ovate or oblong, elliptic or cordiform, rarely obovate, 2–17 x 1–6 cm., coriaceous; apex acuminate, acute, obtuse or occasionally rounded; base cordate to rounded, or obtuse, occasionally cuneate; margin entire; both surfaces glabrous; lateral veins 6–12 pairs, the basal pair unbranched, usually running almost parallel to the margin, other lateral veins furcate near the margin, smaller veins prominent and conspicuous beneath.
Evergreen or rarely deciduous tree, 1-7 m tall, with an upright crown and pale grey bark. Leaves ovate, base ± heart-shaped. Figs axillary, on terminal branches, sessile, 5-7 mm diam., yellowish green when ripe. Aug.-Oct.(-Jan.)
Receptacle subglobose, 5–10 mm. in diam. when fresh, 5–8 mm. in diam. when dry, sparsely and minutely puberulous to glabrous, maturing from green to whitish to dark purple or dark red; wall usually smooth when dry.
Figs mostly in pairs in the leaf axils or just below the leaves, or 2–5 together on spurs 2–3 mm. long on older wood, peduncle 0–3 mm. long; basal bracts c. 1-1.5 mm. long, sometimes caducous.
Petiole 0.5–4(6) cm. long, 1–2 mm. thick, (lamina length: petiole length = 5–8: 1); stipules 0.5–1.5 cm. long, glabrous or ciliolate.
Monoecious tree to 17 m, bark ash grey. Leaves ovate. Figs axillary, sessile, 5-7 mm diam., yellowish green.
Leafy twigs 2–5 mm. thick, glabrous to pubescent, indumentum white.
Trees up to 15(35) m. tall.
