Ficus altissima, commonly known as the council tree and lofty fig, is a species of flowering plant, a fig tree in the family Moraceae. It is a large, stately evergreen hemiepiphyte and is native to southeastern Asia.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Compounds documented for Ficus altissima across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Ficus altissima has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens14
Marker genes4
GenBank sequences10
eDNA detections12
Countries1
The DNA barcodea real sequence read deposited for this species
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
★matK2★rbcL5★ITS3★ITS2
plant barcodefungal barcode
06Genome at a glanceCCDB
The complete instruction manualFicus altissima carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged
2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
DNA clock origin2.56 Ma TimeTree
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
DNA clock origin
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type707 records
Wild obs. + sensor189
Museum / vouchered499
Cultivated / captive2
Other17
Origin
Introduced4
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO1 332 km²
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy92% within 1 km
≤100 m 126≤1 km 24≤10 km 7>10 km 6
163 georeferenced · 26 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor189
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Coordinate accuracy46% within 1 km
≤1 km 6≤10 km 4>10 km 3
13 georeferenced · 486 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence499
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Coordinate accuracy
no georeferenced coordinates · 2 records without
Open the mapnot free-living2
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
10Collections & institutions
Holding institutions31 of 55 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Kunming, CN
111
Beijing, CN
88
Guangzhou, CN
51
Guilin, CN
24
Tampa, US
20
Chengdu, CN
16
Yangling, CN
15
Bronx, US
14
Siouxland Heritage Museumlocation not on record
9
Nanjing, CN
8
Guangzhou, CN
5
Riverside, US
5
Edinburgh, GB
4
Guangxi Institute of Traditional Medical and Pharmaceutical Scienceslocation not on record
4
SCAUlocation not on record
4
Institute for Agricultural Bacteriology and Fermentation Biologylocation not on record
4
Guiyang, CN
3
Saint Louis, US
3
Durban, ZA
3
TAFORI-LSRClocation not on record
3
Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record
3
Zhengzhou, CN
2
Miami, US
2
“Manash Kozybayev North Kazakhstan University" NPLClocation not on record
2
Changsha, CN
2
Paris, FR
2
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
2
Moscow State Universitylocation not on record
1
St. Paul, US
1
Cambridge, US
1
San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record
1
Long Beach, US
1
Chongqing Museumlocation not on record
1
Southwest Forestry Collegelocation not on record
1
Cambridge, US
1
Wuhan, CN
1
Xiamen, CN
1
Servico de Microbiologia e Imunologialocation not on record
1
Rotorua, NZ
1
Cincinnati, US
1
Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST)location not on record
1
Herbarium of South China Botanical Gardenlocation not on record
1
黔东南州民族医药研究所标本室location not on record
1
Yunnan Universitylocation not on record
1
National Institute of Biological Resourceslocation not on record
1
Mount Annan, AU
1
Chongqing Natural History Museumlocation not on record
1
Wuhan, CN
1
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record
1
GZUlocation not on record
1
BISHlocation not on record
1
Chicago, US
1
MSB-3349location not on record
1
Cambridge University Herbariumlocation not on record
1
San Angelo, US
1
55 institutions · 437 of 499 vouchered records shown · 57 without an institution code
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
09Environmental DNA12 detections
Where the DNA of Ficus altissima was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Detections DNA found12
Studies independent surveys1
Countries1
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 12 detections have coordinates
Open the map1 country0
How strong is each trace?
DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.
Modelled climatemodelled
−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C
Temperature median13.7 °C 10.0–24.7
Seasonal swing summer↔winter31.5 °C
Max temp (day)18.6 °C 15.7–30.2
Min temp (night)7.60 °C 3.10–17.8
Precipitation23.2 mm/mo 13.8–105
Air humidity46.4 % 45.7–56.4
Moisture balance-95.2 mm/mo -164–-8.50
Vapour deficit827 Pa 752–1,642
Wind speed4.50 m/s 3.10–4.80
Cloud cover27.0 % 24.1–36.8
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 6 detection points · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation9 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility707 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI12 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics14 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗