Giant Ficus Tree, Bali Botanic Garden

Eight trunks leave the ground here and twist into a single tree. It is the giant fig of the Bali Botanic Garden, one of the most photographed trees in the garden, and it was here before the garden was. The garden opened in 1959. Its own page calls the fig more than 100 years old and one of the oldest plants it holds, which puts the tree on this hillside decades before anyone laid out a path to it. How much older is guesswork. A travel writer suggests hundreds of years, and a visitor who logged it in 2013 noted it was believed to be hundreds, but nobody has dated it. The garden's figure is a floor, not a birthday. The species is open too. Naturalists' records at this spot name it variously as Ficus virens, Ficus altissima or simply Ficus, so we list it as a fig and would welcome a firm answer. It stands high on the upper slope, which the garden calls the Rasamala Forest and other accounts place on Tapak Hill, with views toward Lake Bratan. Visitors have recorded it standing as recently as October 2026. The garden sits in the Bedugul highlands, about 50 km north-west of Ubud, roughly an hour by car or scooter; there is no bus worth the name. Entry is a ticket, quoted between about 17,000 and 30,000 rupiah, and the garden keeps daytime hours. Expect an uphill walk once inside.