the mountain fig

Usually a small tree, most commonly as a lithophytic rock-splitter. Bark pale greyish-cream, smooth and flaking. Leaves oblong to broadly elliptic, more rarely ovate or almost round, 4-14 cm, dark green above, paler below, thickly leathery, with long silky hairs on both surfaces, particularly on the veins. Hairs sometimes almost lost on older leaves; base cordate or rounded; veins prominent below; margin entire. Fruits singly or in pairs in the leaf axils pedunculate, spherical to ellipsoid, 8-15 mm in diameter, variously hairy, covered in small small warts, pink to red when ripe