Ficus maxima Mill.

Small to large trees 5-30 m. tall. Twigs 3-5 mm. in diameter, glabrous or pubescent, with a thin, scurfy, yellowish brown periderm. Stipules to 25 mm. long, narrowly deltoid, glabrous, puberulent, or pubescent at the base. Lamina 2.5-12 cm. wide X 6-24 cm. long, elliptic, broadly elliptic, lanceolate, oblanceo-late, or obovate, glabrous above, glabrous or puberulent beneath; apex blunt, acute, acuminate or long acuminate; base cuneate or obtuse; lateral veins 5-16 pairs, departing from the midrib at an angle from 0?-300; basal veins departing from the midrib at an angle of 40?-60?; intercostals slightly raised. Petiole 5-40 mm. long, 1/5-1/9 the length of the lamina, the epidermis generally scurfy. Figs 10-25 mm. in diameter, globose, or sub-globose, glabrous or puberulent, sometimes with a stalk above the basal bracts 2-7 mm. long, borne among the leaves; color green or yellow, sometimes mottled darker; peduncle 2-25 mm. long, glabrous or pubescent; basal bracts 1-2 mm. long, deltoid, glabrous or pubescent; orifice 1-2 mm. in diameter, flat, or the bracts slightly outflexed.

Frequently growing along streams and more commonly found in the seasonally dry areas, at lower elevations from sea level to around 1,000 metres. Moist or wet forest or fields, often in pastures, by roadsides, or along stream beds.

It is pollinated by the fig wasp Tetrapus americanus.