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. The tree is evergreen when young but becomes briefly deciduous as it grows older. In Australia the fruit are eaten by cassowaries and double-eyed fig parrots.[1]
Species of fig tree
This article is about the tree. For the species of sea snail, see Ficus variegata (gastropod).
Ficus variegata is dioecious, with male and female flowers produced on separate individuals.[2]
Taxonomy
Ficus variegata has been described by Carl Ludwig Blume in 1825. In 1965, E. J. H. Corner updated the species by putting some other Ficus in synonymy with F. variegata varieties.[3] Five were listed: F. variegata var. variegata distributed on all the species range, F. variegata var. chlorocarpa from South China, Hainan Island and Thailand, F. variegata var. garciae described as inhabitant of the Pacific Islands (Ryukyu islands, Taiwan and Philippines), F. variegata var. ilangoides in Luzon and northern Borneo, and F. variegata var. sycomoroides in the Philippines and Borneo.
Recently, all the varieties have been synonymized under Ficus variegata.[4]Ficus variegata belongs to the subgenus Sycomorus section Sycomorus subsection Neomorphe.
Ficus variegata young figs in Kenting, South Taiwan.Ficus variegata pollinated figs and parasitic wasps (Sycorictinae) in Kenting, South Taiwan.
Ecology
Ficus variegata is pollinated by fig wasps from the genus Ceratosolen as are all the fig species from the subgenus Sycomorus.
The figs of Ficus variegata have been reported to be eaten by 41 animal species (5 birds, 15 bats, 7 monkeys, 7 marsupials):[5]
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
References
"Ficus variegata". Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants (RFK8). Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR), Australian Government. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
Kuaraksa, Cherdsak; Elliott, Stephen; Hossaert-Mckey, Martine (2012). "The phenology of dioecious Ficus spp. tree species and its importance for forest restoration projects". Forest Ecology and Management. 265: 82–93. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2011.10.022.
Shanahan, M.; Compton, S.G.; So, S.; Corlett, R. (2001). "Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review". Biological Reviews. 76 (4): 529–572. doi:10.1017/S1464793101005760. PMID11762492. S2CID27827864.
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