Tree up to 25 m tall, sometimes with short stilt-roots. Leafy twigs 4-8(-12) mm thick, patent to extrorsely white appressed-puberulous and/or brown setose-hirsute with irritating hairs, sometimes with small nodal glands, hollow or solid (with copious pith); periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina cordiform to ovate to elliptic or to obovate, (8-)12-30(-45) by (4-)8-25(-35) cm, symmetric, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, apex (sub)acuminate, base cordate to subcordate (to rounded to obtuse), margin (serrate-)dentate; upper surface whitish puberulous to hirtellous to subhispid, ± scabrous, lower surface white puberulous to subtomentose and brown setose-hirtellous to-subhirsute, whitish strigose to strigillose or whitish subtomentose to hirtellous to subhispid on the veins; cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 6-11 pairs, the basal pair branched, up to 1/3-1/2 the length of the lamina, the other lateral veins often branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform, ± prominent beneath; waxy glands in the axils of (nearly) all lateral veins, those of the basal ones on the midrib and/or the basis of the lateral veins, moreover, small ones in furcations of the lateral veins; petiole 2-22 cm long, white puberulous and/or brown setose-hirsute with irritating hairs or densely white puberulous to subtomentose and brownish hirtellous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 3-7 cm long, white appressed-puberulous and/or brown setose-hirsute, often only on the midrib, caducous or subpersistent, the old stipules recurved/hanging down. Figs cauliflorous (to flagelliflorous), clustered on up to 1 cm long short-shoots of leafless, branched or unbranched, (sub)pendulous, up to 2.5 m long, sometimes rooting branchlets with the internodes 1-2 cm long, borne on the (base of the) trunk or also on the main branches; with a peduncle up to 0.8(-2) cm long or subsessile; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 1-2 mm long; receptacle subglobose, 0.4-0.8 cm diam. when dry, 0.6-1.2 cm diam. when fresh, brownish puberulous, often with conspicuous lenticels, without lateral bracts, at maturity red, apex ± convex, ostiole 1-1.5 mm diam., ± prominent to flat, surrounded by 5 or 6 incurved to erect apical bracts; internal hairs abundant.
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A fig. It is a tall tree with large leaves 30 cm long and 25 cm wide. Young leaves are light green. They have teeth along the edge and are rough on both surfaces. They have 10 pairs of side veins. Stalks have very sharp thorns. These can fall off. The fruit are small (0.5 cm) and in clusters along long stalks hanging from the trunk. The stalks can be 50-80 cm long. The fruit are greenish-yellow but turn red as they ripen.
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