Ficus vasculosa Wall. ex Miq.

Etymology	Genus	From the Latin name for the fig (Ficus species)
	Species	-
Family		Moraceae
Synonyms		-
Common Names		White Fig, Ara Nasi, Pulut-Pulut
Status		Native: Vulnerable
Form		Tree
Native Distribution		Myanmar, south China, Indochina, Thailand, Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula, Singapore, Java, and Borneo

Diagnostics:

A usually small treelet or tree that can sometimes grow up to 45m tall (Tan et al., 2014). The trunk can be fissured or smooth, and can have buttress roots of up to 2.5m. The leaves are glabrous, with the juvenile leaves being lobed, while the adult leaves have elliptic to obovate in shape.

References

Tan, H. T. W., Ng, A. B. C., Yeoh, Y. S., Ang, W. F., Ooi, Z. Y., Yap, V. B., Ng, X. Y., Lim, R. C. J., & Neo, L. (2014). Status and distribution in Singapore of Ficus vasculosa Wall. ex Miq. (Moraceae). Nature in Singapore, 7, 155–165.

Author: Siyang
Posted: 2026-03-06