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Fig ID please

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What fig is this? The cordate leaf base is the main clue.
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Not Moreton Bay, which was one suggestion. Their leaves are elliptical.
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Port Jackson
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The tree is not a Port Jackson fig. It does not have the characteristic rusty coloration of the undersides of the leaves. Also, ficus rubiginosa has ovate (egg-shaped) leaves, not ones with cordate (heart shaped) bases like my mystery fig.

The leaf shape eliminates rubiginosa, macrophylla or obliqua from the possible IDs for this tree.
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