Ficus variegata

Ficus variegata

''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.
Variegated Fig fruiting 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.

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Habitat

''Ficus variegata'' is pollinating by fig wasps from the genus ''Ceratosolen'' as all the fig species from the subgenus ''Sycomorus''.
The figs of ''Ficus variegata'' have been reported to be eaten by 41 animal species :

⤷  Southern cassowary
⤷  Blyth's hornbill
⤷  Yellow-crested cockatoo
⤷  Double-eyed fig parrot
⤷  Japanese white-eye
⤷  Common echymipera
⤷  Long-nosed echymipera
⤷  Raffray's bandicoot
⤷  Ground cuscus
⤷  Northern common cuscus
⤷  Stein's cuscus
⤷  Common spotted cuscus
⤷  Lesser short-nosed fruit bat
⤷  Horsfield's fruit bat
⤷  Greater short-nosed fruit bat
⤷  Indonesian short-nosed fruit bat
⤷  New Guinea naked-backed fruit bat
⤷  Lesser naked-backed fruit bat
⤷  Long-tongued fruit bat
⤷  Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat
⤷  Common tube-nosed fruit bat
⤷  Eastern tube-nosed bat
⤷  Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat
⤷  Greater musky fruit bat
⤷  Great flying fox
⤷  Geoffroy's rousette
⤷  Common blossom bat
⤷  Celebes crested macaque
⤷  Javan surili
⤷  Red-shanked douc
⤷  Lar gibbon
⤷  Silvery gibbon
⤷  Agile gibbon
⤷  Bornean orangutan
⤷  Black rat

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Taxonomy
KingdomPlantae
DivisionAngiosperms
ClassEudicots
OrderRosales
FamilyMoraceae
GenusFicus
SpeciesF. variegata