Ficus variifolia Warb.

Tree up to 35 m. or more tall, with buttresses.. Leafy twigs 2–3 mm. thick, white puberulous or glabrous, when juvenile white hirsute to pubescent.. Lamina subcoriaceous, when juvenile chartaceous, oblong to elliptic or ± ovate, 5–20 × 2–11.5 cm., often larger when juvenile, apex subacute to acuminate, base cordate to rounded, margin entire or almost so, when juvenile irregularly lobed to divided; both surfaces glabrous to sparsely puberulous, smooth or scabridulous, when juvenile white hirsute to hirtellous, often scabrous; lateral veins (5–)8–13 pairs or often more when young; petiole 1–5 cm. long, 1–2 mm. thick; stipules 0.3–0.7 cm. long, puberulous or partly hirsute, caducous.. Figs solitary or in pairs in the leaf axils; peduncle 0.3–1 cm. long; basal bracts ± 2 mm. long, persistent.. Receptacle globose to obovoid, ± 2 cm. in diameter when fresh, ± 1.5 cm. when dry, puberulous, yellow at maturity.. Wall of fruiting fig 1.5 mm. thick when dry, firm.

Pioneer of cleared areas; forest gallery; northern edges of half-deciduous forests; grass savannah; drier types of closed forest; clayey soil in rain-forest; old secondary forest; at elevations from 300-1,200 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.