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Variegated Fig fruits
A variable fig species which is very common in Borneo and across Asia. This species grows into a big tree with buttress roots. Fruits grow in large clusters. This tree has green fruit morph.
Borneo has around 150 native fig species. I enjoy documenting figs as they are unique. Their flowers grow inside the fruits and can only be pollinated by specialized fig wasps which enters and breed inside the fruits.
''Ficus variegata'' is a well distributed species of tropical fig tree. It occurs in many parts of Asia, islands of the Pacific and as far south east as Australia. There is a large variety of local common names including common red stem fig, green fruited fig and variegated fig. A non strangling fig which may reach 30 metres in height. In Australia the fruit are eaten by cassowaries and double-eyed fig parrots.
