Sandpaper fig Australian Natives bush tucker delicious nutritious fruit

• You will receive 1 x Sandpaper Fig size as illustrated in the last photo

• Botanical Name:Ficus coronata

  The Sandpaper Fig is native of Australian can grow up to 15 meters tall, with distinctive rough leaves that feel like sandpaper to the touch.

  It produces small, greenish-yellow very sweet fruit that’s said to be the best tasting Australian fig. Fruits can be eaten fresh (after removing the furry skin) or dried, or cooked into cakes, pies, biscuits, jellies, jams or sauces. Aboriginal people traditionally used the leaves to smooth and polish weaponry, the bark to make string, and the fruit for delicious bush tucker. The fruit is also believed to have medicinal properties, and is used to treat a variety of ailments, such as sore throats and skin conditions.

  Like all Ficus trees, Sandpaper Fig flowers ‘outside-in’ — its flowers form on the inside of its fruiting body — and can only be fertilised by a particular family of wasp. This fig species bears its fruit on its trunk as well as on its stems: a phenomenon known as “cauliflory”. Fruits ripen from January to June and may be plucked straight off the tree or collected off the ground.

  Median tree reaches to 15m tall in wild, 6-10m in cultivation

  Suitable for pots

  Fun sun

  Tolerant most soil conditions

  Drought tolerant

  Fruit from year 1

  Frost sensitive

This plant is offered with COMBINE EXPRESS POST @ $15.50 for up to 500g  if you are interested in other plants listed. 

Postage all deliveries are dispatched and posted out on  Monday and Tuesday  following payment. The CUT OFF for dispatch is 9am.

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Unfortunately, plants are not allowed to be sent to NT, WA or TAS due to quarantine restriction. If you happened to order from these locations, total cost will incurred due to eBay's policy.