Chinese Banyan leaves
This fig tree is a huge strangler which can grow on host trees and other structures and strangle them with its bountiful roots. Roots starts as small soft aerial roots which reaches the ground and slowly strengthen into strong trunks. This is a very common species of fig which could be found everywhere especially in urban areas. It is truly amazing and a work of art that this naturally large-growing species can be cultivated into the tiny bonsai which this species is wellknown for instead. Borneo have over 150 native fig species and I have documented 1/3 of it together with 1StopBorneo Wildlife expeditions. It is amazing to document the great variety of forms figs plants can grow into.
''Ficus microcarpa'', also known as Chinese banyan, Malayan banyan, Indian laurel, curtain fig, or gajumaru, is a tree in the fig family Moraceae. It is native in a range from China through tropical Asia and the Caroline Islands to Australia. It is widely planted as a shade tree and frequently misidentified as ''F. retusa'' or as ''F. nitida''.
