Ficus exasperata, also called the sandpaper tree, forest sandpaper fig, white fig, or sandpaper leaf tree, is a deciduous, and dioecious species of plant in the mulberry family Moraceae, native to tropical Africa (an area from Senegal east to Ethiopia and south to Angola and Mozambique) and southern Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Yemen).
The trunk develops aerial and buttressing roots to anchor it in the soil and help support heavy branches.
It has almost distichous and alternate which are almost opposite, simple; blade ovate to elliptical or obovate; base acute to obtuse; apex shortly acuminate, acute or obtuse; and margin toothed to entire.
[clarification needed] Flowers are unisexual and are pink, purplish, or yellow, becomes orange or red at maturity.
Besides sexual reproduction, the tree may grow with vegetative means propagated by seed and cuttings.