The sandpaper figs are so named for their leaves, which are rough and
sandpaper-like in texture. The common name may refer to a number of species in the genus ''
Ficus
''Ficus'' ( or ) is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes and hemiepiphytes in the family Moraceae. Collectively known as fig trees or figs, they are native throughout the tropics with a few species extending in ...
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Ficus carpentariensis
''Ficus carpentariensis'' is a species of fig
The fig is the edible fruit of ''Ficus carica'', a species of small tree in the flowering plant family Moraceae. Native to the Mediterranean and western Asia, it has been cultivated since ancient t ...
'', possibly hybrid individuals
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Ficus coronata
''Ficus coronata'', commonly known as the sandpaper fig or creek sandpaper fig, is a species of fig tree, native to Australia. It is found along the east coast from Mackay in Central Queensland, through New South Wales and just into Victoria ne ...
'', creek sandpaper fig
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Ficus coronulata
''Ficus coronulata'', commonly known as the peach-leaf fig, and in the Northern Territory as river fig and crown fig, is one of several fig species commonly known as sandpaper figs. It is native to Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
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'', crown, peach-leaf or river fig
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Ficus copiosa
''Ficus copiosa'', the plentiful fig, is a species of flowering plant in the family Moraceae, native to Sulawesi, the Moluccas, Papuasia, Queensland, and on to some western Pacific islands. The leaves are widely consumed as a vegetable by local p ...
'', sandpaper fig of New Guinea and northern Australia
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Ficus fraseri
''Ficus fraseri'', the white sandpaper fig or shiny sandpaper fig, is one of several fig species commonly known as sandpaper figs. It is native to New South Wales, Queensland and the Northern Territory in Australia and to New Caledonia and Vanua ...
'', white or shiny sandpaper fig
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Ficus leptoclada
''Ficus'' ( or ) is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes and hemiepiphytes in the family Moraceae. Collectively known as fig trees or figs, they are native throughout the tropics with a few species extending int ...
'', Atherton sandpaper fig
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Ficus opposita
''Ficus opposita'' is one of several fig species commonly known as sandpaper figs. It is native to the Northern Territory and Queensland in Australia.Other common names include sweet sandpaper fig, sweet fig and the ambiguous "figwood" and "wate ...
'', sweet sandpaper fig
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Ficus podocarpifolia
''Ficus'' ( or ) is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes and hemiepiphytes in the family Moraceae. Collectively known as fig trees or figs, they are native throughout the tropics with a few species extending int ...
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Ficus scobina
''Ficus scobina'' is one of several fig species commonly known as sandpaper fig The sandpaper figs are so named for their leaves, which are rough and sandpaper-like in texture. The common name may refer to a number of species in the genus ''Ficu ...
'', sandpaper fig
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Ficus virgata
''Ficus virgata'', commonly known as figwood, is a tree in the family Moraceae, native to areas of Southeast Asia and the western Pacific. It grows as a strangler on other trees, eventually smothering and killing its host.
Conservation
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Ficus capreifolia
The river sandpaper fig (''Ficus capreifolia'') is a fig
The fig is the edible fruit of ''Ficus carica'', a species of small tree in the flowering plant family Moraceae. Native to the Mediterranean and western Asia, it has been cultivated sin ...
'', river sandpaper fig
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Ficus exasperata
''Ficus exasperata'', also called the sandpaper tree, forest sandpaper fig, white fig, or sandpaper leaf tree, is a deciduous, and dioecious species of plant in the mulberry family Moraceae, native to tropical Africa (an area from Senegal east t ...
'', sandpaper forest fig
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Rosales of Australia