Small-leaved fig (Fijian: Baka ni viti)

Many bird species eat the fruit. Commonly grown as shade tree in parks and is well-suited as indoor-plant or bonsai.

Native to Eastern Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia and southwestern Pacific islands

All parts of the tree has been used in traditional medicine in Fiji.

Ficus obliqua is a so called “strangler fig”. This means, that it starts his life as an epiphyte (living on another plant) when its seed germinates in a crack or a crevice of a host tree. They grow roots down toward the ground and consequently may envelop part of the host tree. In the meantime, the host tree keeps growing and strangles himself within the root-net of the fig tree.