A fallen Ficus consociata by the roadside at Maliau is a good chance to take some close up photos of the very distinctive young hairy leaves. The figs were not ripe when we visited but when this individual fig tree has fruited in the past, the fig fruit proved very popular with Brown Barbets and bulbuls. Honor Phillipps and Miyabi Nakabayashi show the size.
Note the characteristic dirty looking scurf on the underside of this F. consociata leaf. Ficus drupacea leaves may also sometimes have a similar scurf.A view of the Maliau Basin Study Centre in central Sabah, from the entrance road . The tall tree in the foreground is a dipterocarp hosting a large hemi-epiphytic Ficus kerkhovenii with one large drop down root next to the trunk. The fallen F. consociata illustrated in this article is 500m back along the access road.The Maliau Basin is a rugged area of fully protected hill forest in central Sabah, (N. Borneo). Politically Sabah is a state in East Malaysia
