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Ficus scaberrima (male): Sepilok RDC, Sabah

Ficus scaberrima growing as a hemi-epiphyte next to the entrance to the Sepilok B & B on Jalan Fabia, Rainforest Discovery Centre, Sepilok, Sandakan, Sabah.

All photos by Shuai LIAO taken on 16 September 2019, collection #20190457.

All figs in Section Sycidium are dioecious with separate male and female plants. Based on the fact that the figs are ripening green-yellow (rather than orange-scarlet) this individual fig plant is believed to be a male.

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