Wild Banyan-tree

Use as a specimen tree.  May be large.  May produce aerial roots, but less frequently than F. aurea.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Many birds and other wildlife consume the fruit and find cover in this plant.

Dry-moist sites. Tropical hammocks.

• Interesting bark, Interesting foliage
• Larval host for ruddy daggerwing (Marpesia petreus) butterflies, Edwards' wasp (Lymire edwardsii) and fig sphinx (Pachylia ficus) moths.
• It is pollinated by a host-specific wasp (Pegoscapus tonduzi).