Identify tree with gray ridged bark and large cordate leaves

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The leaves are big and the stem is thin

Tropical? Where is this tree?
– Wayfaring Stranger
Oct 25, 2018 at 17:52 — Wayfaring Stranger, Oct 25, 2018 at 17:52

stormy · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-08 00:31:14Z

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This is Elephant Ear Fig; Ficus auriculata. Nice figs!

I've seen some of these images labeled Ficus auriculata with serrated margins. Primarily new leaves. This must be in India?

answered Nov 5, 2018 at 20:10

stormy

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Hi Stormy, we are looking for answers with more detail. How did you identify it?
– kevinskio ♦
Nov 7, 2018 at 11:31
I've been having problems with my 'puter...I'll keep trying.
– stormy
Nov 7, 2018 at 20:26
@Stormy - I'm not seeing the ridges on the trees in the photos you've linked to. Perhaps it's a related species?
– Jurp
Nov 8, 2018 at 0:06
Jurp, there are pictures of younger trees showing what I think are leaf scars, petiole leaf scars. I haven't been able to up load...you could be right that this is a related species or a variety of the same but...the leaves are fairly definitive for the species; Elephant ear? I was worried more about the leaf margins. Some of the images under this species show serrated margins...mostly the younger growth? The pictures that showed serrated margins I dismissed as mistakenly IDd. Where is Bamboo!?
– stormy
Nov 8, 2018 at 0:27
Ugh, I just tried to upload a younger tree's bark. Did it work?
– stormy
Nov 8, 2018 at 0:32

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