Ficus burkei fruit among the leaves

Fruits may be found on Ficus burkei trees most times of the year. They grow from the leaf axils, the angles between the leaf stalks or petioles and the stems. The fruits are here hairy, while the leaf blades and their petioles are smooth. The pores or openings at the fig tips are loosely covered by minute bracts. This is where the wasps enter and exit the fruits. Male and female florets inside each fig or syconium are separate. Sycon means fig in Greek.

The petioles are grooved on top. The leaf tips in picture are well rounded, on some trees distinctly pointed (Coates Palgrave, 2002; Schmidt, et al, 2002; Van Wyk and Van Wyk, 1997; Pooley, 1993; iNaturalist).