Ficus aurea
（重定向自Florida Strangler Fig）
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![Ficus aurea sapling showing elliptic leaf shape at Long Key, Florida](/Images/godic/202501/13/Ficus_aurea013410.jpg")
![Engraving of Ficus maxima indica after a drawing by Hans Sloane, the earliest published illustration of Ficus aurea and the basis of Thomas Miller's Ficus maxima. The unpaired figs in the illustration led to confusion as to the identity of the species described by Miller.](/Images/godic/202501/13/Ficusindicamaxima3410.jpg")
![A Florida strangler fig with abundant adventitious roots at Villa Vizcaya, Miami](/Images/godic/202501/13/Ficus_aurea3410.JPG")
Ficus aurea, commonly known as the Florida strangler fig (or simply strangler fig), golden fig, or higuerón, is a tree in the family Moraceae that is native to the U.S. state of Florida, the northern and western Caribbean, southern Mexico and Central America south to Panama. The specific epithet aurea was applied by English botanist Thomas Nuttall who described the species in 1846.