Ficus padana Burm.F.

Tree up to 15 m tall, with a broad (umbrella-shaped) crown. Leafy twigs 5-15 mm thick, pale brown to whitish villous to subtomentose to subhirsute, with conspicuous to inconspicuous pairs of waxy glands at the bases of the petioles; periderm flaking off. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina cordiform to ovate to elliptic (or to oblong), (or when juvenile) (sub)palmately 3-5-lobed to-fid and the midsegment entire or pinnately lobed, 12-35 by 6-25 cm (when juvenile up to 50 by 35 cm), chartaceous to subcoriaceous, apex shortly acuminate (to subacute), base cordate, margin denticulate (to subentire); upper surface (sub)glabrous, lower surface densely pale brown to whitish villous, the indumentum often disappearing from the main veins; cystoliths absent; lateral veins 5-8 (when juvenile-13), when fresh often red, the basal pair up to 1/3-1/2 the length of the lamina, branched, other lateral veins often branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation loosely scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of the (main) basal lateral veins, smaller ones in axils of other lateral veins; petiole 4-16 (when juvenile-30) cm long, pale brown to whitish villous to tomentose, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 2-5 cm long, pale brown to yellowish (sub)sericeous, caducous. Figs axillary, in pairs, (sub)sessile; basal bracts 3, 4-7 mm long, villous to subsericeous; receptacle subglobose, 2-3.5 cm diam. when dry, 3.5-5.5 cm diam. when fresh, 0.5-1.5 cm long stipitate (or sometimes not), pale to dark brown villous, red at maturity, apex convex, ostiole 4-5 mm diam.; wall with flower-bearing processes into the fig cavity; internal hairs very few to abundant, white.

Secondary forest, abandoned estates etc. From the lowland ascending to 1,500 metres frequent, not rarely social and wide-spread.

Can be grown by seedlings.