The fig leaf is oddly shaped, with many lobes, and the Ficus macrocarpa leaf is oval.

The trees of the genus Ficus in the mulberry family all bear fruit without blossoming, and in this sense they are all "figs", but the scientific name of the fig is only one of the plants.

The fig is a small subtropical deciduous tree, 3-10 meters high.

Ficus macrocarpa generally refers to Ficus alpina. Ficus alpina is a large tree, 25-30 meters high, with a diameter at breast height of 40-90 centimeters.

In addition to the different size of the tree, the shape of the leaves of the two are also different, fig leaves alternate, thick papery, broadly ovoid, subequal in length and width, 10-20 cm, usually 3-5-lobed, lobules ovate, with irregularly obtuse teeth on the margins, the surface is rough, the abaxial side densely covered with fine stalactites and gray pubescence, the base shallowly cordate, the base of the lateral veins 3- 5, lateral veins 5-7 pairs.

Petiole 2-5 cm long, stout; stipules ovate-lanceolate, about 1 cm long, red. Ficus macrocarpa leaves are thickly leathery, broadly ovate to broadly ovate-elliptic, 10-19 centimeters long, 8-11 centimeters wide, apex obtuse, acute, base broadly cuneate, entire, both surfaces smooth, glabrous, with prolonged basal lateral veins, and 5-7 pairs of lateral veins; petiole is 2-5 centimeters long, stout.

The stipules are thickly leathery, 2-3 cm long, outside covered with gray sericeous hairs.

The fig tree belongs to the same genus Ficus in the mulberry family as Ficus grandiflora, and both are cryptogamous, which means that you can't see the flowers blooming, only the fruit.