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Ficus tarrenifolia, Bukit Taviu, Sabah

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Ficus tarennifolia is normally considered a fig of the Sabah mountains. A typical location to find  F. tarennifolia  is in the Mountain Garden at Kinabalu Park HQ, but this striking individual was growing in the lowlands next to the Kota Kinabalu – Sandakan road near Telupid where it passes through the Taviu Forest Reserve.

Just outside Telupid the road cutting exposes a whole hillside of ultramafic  rock which in Sabah at least has a very distinctive flora, with many specialist endemic plant species.
Amongst the shrubs growing on the ultramafic rocks were several individuals of Ficus tarennifolia. John Hamilton shows the scale. The small Ficus tarennifolia fig tree is on the right.
Notice  the bunch of cauliferous figs right at the base of the tree, typical of Ficus tarennifolia.

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