Ficus copiosa
Moraceae FAMILY

Ficus copiosa

Ficus copiosa

Edibility
3/5
Medicinal
2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Ficus copiosa is an evergreen tree that can grow up from 5 - 20 metres tall[ 310 Title Plant Resources of Southeast Asia Publication Author Website http://proseanet.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Lots of information on the uses of the plants of SE Asia. , 481 Title Medicinal Plants in Papua New Guinea Publication Author Publisher World Health Organisation Year 2009 ISBN 978-92-9061-249-0 Description Traditional medicinal uses of 126 species from Papua New Guinea, including information on modern research into the plants. ]. The straight bole is slender[ 658 Title Food Plants of Papua New Guinea Publication Author French. B.R. Publisher Author. Year 2006 ISBN Description Published on-line in PDF format, this book contains information on several hundred New Guinea food plants. ]. This is one of the most widely used of the edible fig leaves in New Guinea, where the tree is sometimes cultivated as a food crop and is also grown as a hedge[ 310 Title Plant Resources of Southeast Asia Publication Author Website http://proseanet.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Lots of information on the uses of the plants of SE Asia. , 658 Title Food Plants of Papua New Guinea Publication Author French. B.R. Publisher Author. Year 2006 ISBN Description Published on-line in PDF format, this book contains information on several hundred New Guinea food plants. , 716 Title Growing Food in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. Publication Author French B.R. Website http://www.learngrow.org/uploads/file/2Growing%20food%20plants%20SHP.pdf Publisher Year 1982 ISBN Description Originally compiled as a part of AFTSEMU, in a World Bank funded project in Papua New Guinea in 1982, it was made available as a pdf document in 2006. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical
Native RangeSoutheast Asia - Indonesia; through New Guinea, northern Australia, Palau, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu.
HabitatFound in both coastal and inland regions, in primary and secondary forest, at elevations up to 1,700 metres[ 310 Title Plant Resources of Southeast Asia Publication Author Website http://proseanet.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Lots of information on the uses of the plants of SE Asia. ]. Grows in well developed rain forest on a variety of sites but is probably more common in some of the drier more seasonal areas[ 713 Title Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants Publication Author Website http://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/cd-keys/rfk/index.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An online resource giving botanical information, and a little bit about plant usage, for over 2,700 species of plants found in the Australian rainforest. ].