Ficus crassipes
# Ficus crassipes

Ficus crassipes, commonly known as the round-leaved banana fig is a fig that is endemic to the wet tropical rainforests of northeastern Queensland, Australia. It has large brownish cylindrical syconia.

## Description

Ficus crassipes is a monoecious tree which grows up to 20 m (66 ft) tall. Its leaves are 76–218 mm (3.0–8.6 in) long and 53–154 mm (2.1–6.1 in) wide. Its syconia are yellowish to orange-brown to purple in colour, 43–68 mm (1.7–2.7 in) long and 15–32 mm (0.59–1.26 in) in diameter. It begins life as a hemiepiphyte.

