This photo is of a Ficus cucurbitina strangling fig first planted as a sapling at the Sabah Ficus Germplasm Centre (BORA) at Tabin in Sabah.
This young fig tree was collected as a sapling from a local oil palm when it was estimated to be 2 years old. It has not yet fruited at an estimated age of 9 years.
For a photo of the original sapling photographed on 6 January 2014 when it was believed to be 2 years old ,scroll to the bottom of this page.
All photos by Dr Zainal Zahari Zainuddin. The tree photos were taken in April 2021 at an estimated 9 years of age.
This Ficus cucurbitina fig tree eventually fruited in January 2024 when it was an estimated 11 years old.
The original sapling of Ficus curcurbitina first photographed on 6 January 2014. Estimated at 2 years old.
