Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_ficus_macrophylla
Moreton Bay Fig
Ficus macrophylla
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About Moreton Bay Fig
Moreton Bay Fig (Ficus macrophylla) is a post-contact introduced tree documented on Kauaʻi through historical forestry planting records. The reviewed records do not establish present survival. Native to eastern Australia and Lord Howe Island in subtropical and seasonally dry tropical forest. A 1980 forestry ledger documents Kauaʻi planting in 1926, 1927, 1928, 1931, 1937, 1938; it does not establish current survival, reproduction, or naturalization.
Kauaʻi evidence
Taxonomic identity, tree form, diagnostic morphology and island occurrence use the linked reviewed sources. Historical planting, cultivation, naturalization and invasive status are separate. Generated imagery is not occurrence evidence. The 1918–1959 Kauaʻi reforestation working register records 4,092 plants under Ficus macrophylla across 8 entries dated 1926–1938. These are recorded planting quantities, not counts of surviving trees, and they do not by themselves establish current persistence, naturalization, or ecological impact. Source: Kauaʻi Reforestation Plantings 1918–1959 working register (user-supplied; reconciled 6 October 2026).
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Ficus macrophylla
- Common names
- Moreton Bay Fig
- Other names
- Ficus macrophylla · Moreton Bay fig
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Introduced
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-06
- Evidence limits
- Current survival on Kauaʻi, number of trees, occupied habitat, flowering or fruiting, recruitment, population trend, and ecological effects are all unconfirmed; no naturalization or invasive severity is inferred from the historical planting record.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- As with other figs, flowers are enclosed within the syconium and normally depend on a specific fig wasp for sexual seed production. Kauaʻi pollinator presence, viable seed, dispersal, and recruitment are unconfirmed.
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Large evergreen tree
Threats and conservation
- Monitoring
- Not yet assessed
- Data gaps
- Current population extent and trajectory · Additional species-specific ecological and conservation sources
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not yet assessed
- Seasonal description
- Moreton Bay Fig (Ficus macrophylla) is a post-contact introduced tree documented on Kauaʻi through historical forestry planting records. The reviewed records do not establish present survival. Native to eastern Australia and Lord Howe Island in subtropical and seasonally dry tropical forest. A 1980 forestry ledger documents Kauaʻi planting in 1926, 1927, 1928, 1931, 1937, 1938; it does not establish current survival, reproduction, or naturalization.