An indoor fiddle leaf fig tree Ficus lyrata, commonly known as the fiddle-leaf fig, is a species of flowering plant in the mulberry and fig family Moraceae. It is native to western Africa, from Cameroon west to Sierra Leone, where it grows in lowland tropical rainforest. It can grow up to 12 - tall. Above: an example of a lyrate leaf. Ficus lyrata leaves are lyrate, meaning that they resemble a lyre. The leaves are variable in shape, but often with a broad apex and narrow middle, resembling a lyre or fiddle; they are up to 45 cm long and 30 cm broad (though usually smaller) with a leathery texture, prominent veins and a wavy margin. The fruit is a green fig 2.5–3 cm (1-¼ in) diameter.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Compounds documented for Ficus lyrata 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 lyrata has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens11
Marker genes5
GenBank sequences6
eDNA detections7
Countries3
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.
★rbcL5★rbcLa★ITS1★ITS2trnH-psbA
plant barcodefungal barcodemarker
06Genome at a glanceCCDB · TreeOfSex
The complete instruction manualFicus lyrata 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 origin3.31 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 type745 records
Wild obs. + sensor560
Museum / vouchered164
Other21
Origin
Introduced72
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO1 768 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 accuracy94% within 1 km
≤100 m 369≤1 km 26≤10 km 11>10 km 15
421 georeferenced · 139 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor560
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 accuracy74% within 1 km
≤100 m 11≤1 km 6≤10 km 3>10 km 3
23 georeferenced · 141 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence164
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 68 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Saint Louis, US
17
Durban, ZA
7
LSF/FSA/UAClocation not on record
7
MeiseBGlocation not on record
5
National Biodiversity Institute, Costa Ricalocation not on record
4
Durango, MX
4
Government College University Lahore, Dr. Sultan Ahmad Herbariumlocation not on record
4
Mexico City, MX
4
Tampa, US
3
CNF-UFHBlocation not on record
3
Bronx, US
3
Tapachula, MX
3
Yaoundé, CM
2
San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record
2
HNBlocation not on record
2
Salvador, BR
2
Mérida, MX
2
Universidad de Antioquia (UdeA)location not on record
2
Vancouver, CA
2
Antiguo Cuscatlán, SV
2
Berlin, DE
2
Riverside, US
2
Brasília, BR
2
Instituto para la Investigación y la Preservación del Patrimonio Cultural y Natural del Valle del Cauca - INCIVAlocation not on record
2
Kew, GB
2
Feira de Santana, BR
1
Bogotá, D.C., CO
1
San Francisco, US
1
Moscow State Universitylocation not on record
1
Altos de Pipe, VE
1
Laboratorio de Ictiologialocation not on record
1
Ivano-Frankivsk, UA
1
CEPLAClocation not on record
1
Auckland, NZ
1
Universidade Paulistalocation not on record
1
Claremont, US
1
Rotorua, NZ
1
Museo Achille Folettolocation not on record
1
Tsukuba, JP
1
Chongqing Museumlocation not on record
1
Miami, US
1
CASlocation not on record
1
BRLUlocation not on record
1
JBRJlocation not on record
1
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
1
Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record
1
Long Beach, US
1
Museo de Historia Natural de El Salvadorlocation not on record
1
Paris, FR
1
TAIElocation not on record
1
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA)location not on record
1
Bangkok, TH
1
Gujarat Biodiversity Gene Banklocation not on record
1
College of the Atlantic, Museumlocation not on record
1
Henry Brockhouse Collectionlocation not on record
1
Istituto Agrario Castelnuovolocation not on record
1
Seropédica, BR
1
Alexandria Universitylocation not on record
1
MEXUlocation not on record
1
Gump Stationlocation not on record
1
BISHlocation not on record
1
UFBAlocation not on record
1
Vitoria, ES
1
Université du Lomélocation not on record
1
Universidade Federal de Goiáslocation not on record
1
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record
1
UFRRJlocation not on record
1
UEMlocation not on record
1
68 institutions · 133 of 164 vouchered records shown · 31 without an institution code
09Environmental DNA7 detections
Where the DNA of Ficus lyrata 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 found7
Studies independent surveys1
Countries2
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 7 detections have coordinates
Open the map2 countries0
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 median18.2 °C 18.2–26.4
Seasonal swing summer↔winter21.2 °C
Max temp (day)25.6 °C 25.2–28.8
Min temp (night)12.2 °C 12.2–24.0
Precipitation9.00 mm/mo 4.60–178
Air humidity51.6 % 51.6–64.8
Moisture balance-66.4 mm/mo
Vapour deficit1,007 Pa 987–1,255
Wind speed2.00 m/s
Cloud cover26.4 % 17.2–26.4
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 Foundation16 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility745 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI7 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics11 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
Tree of SexTree of Sex Consortiumgenome & karyotype↗
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗