Ficus virens
white fig, banyan at Syndicate, QLD
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| Ficus virens | JasonPStewart | 14 Sep 2025 | |
| Ficus virens | JasonPStewart | 14 Sep 2025 |
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_Ficus virens_ .
Healthy huge mature tree, buttresses, trunk and the far above canopy foliage .
_Atractocarpus hirtus_ ( https://naturemapr.org/sightings/4696958 ) and other plants growing in the buttresses.
Mossman Gorge, long loop track back part after ridge and then creek, side track to this huge fig .
2016 September 26th 5:04–5:15 pm
3 comments
16 Sep 2025
I believe this tree had fallen when I visited in 2025. Nice to see it looking healthy
16 Sep 2025
Yeah started rotting and then the canopy, the tree's top half, fell between 2019 and 2021 while i was away staying with my ill elderly mother (who 85 yo passed in 2024 Feb.) .
The trunk, tree's bottom half, rotted and fell in subsequent few years from 2021.
Huge branches some ca. 2+m diameter were on the ground around the trunk base, and then the trunk base both rotted and fell.
Simultaneously with the canopy gap light availability and moreso more recently ca. 2023 to present, many rain forest gaps regeneration plants' spp. prolifically grow.
Of which i have so many sightings–photographs of this rain forest specific gap patch regeneration.
Some i have uploaded here, and many i have yet to upload here, in NatureMapr.
Notable example all of my _Solanum magnifolium_ sightings and many many photographs, from this regeneration patch here.
The trunk, tree's bottom half, rotted and fell in subsequent few years from 2021.
Huge branches some ca. 2+m diameter were on the ground around the trunk base, and then the trunk base both rotted and fell.
Simultaneously with the canopy gap light availability and moreso more recently ca. 2023 to present, many rain forest gaps regeneration plants' spp. prolifically grow.
Of which i have so many sightings–photographs of this rain forest specific gap patch regeneration.
Some i have uploaded here, and many i have yet to upload here, in NatureMapr.
Notable example all of my _Solanum magnifolium_ sightings and many many photographs, from this regeneration patch here.
21 Dec 2025
More, please refer to my 2022 photographic sighting of the remaining only trunk, canopy fallen,
here: Ficus virens (white fig, banyan) .
here: Ficus virens (white fig, banyan) .
Location information
- Coordinates 145.321320-16.468837
- Places Syndicate, QLD
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 26 Sep 2016 05:04 PM Recorded on
- JasonPStewart Recorded by
- Greater than 4 meters Circumference of trunk
- Greater than 5 metres Plant height
- Yes Hollows present in tree
Collections
- Au rain forest and swamp forest plants, incl. phenology – JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 NatureMapr Ficus virens Other Trees Plants
Species information
- Ficus virens Scientific name
- white fig, banyan Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 100m Recorded at altitude
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