When we visited Pulau Maratua in 2013 we were the first people to drive along this new road to the north end of the island in this new pick up truck – the first vehicle on Maratua. Along the sides of the new road there was a flush of new secondary vegetation responding to the extra light that had resulted from the removal of trees. Among the new vegetation were several individual plants of this strange small fig believed to be Ficus heterophylla growing right next to the new tarmac. Alternatively this may be one of numerous varieties of Ficus montana.
