Anyone know what species this tree is, please?

[HelenB]

Location: Cabo San Lucas, Mexico - southern tip of Baja California

On our recent cruise we found this large tree which was full of birds feeding early one morning. I would like to know what it is, so that I can name it correctly in my trip report.

Thanks to anyone who can help.

[Michael Frankis]

A fig (Ficus) of some sort, sorry, don't know which (there's about 800 species to chose from!)

Michael

[steve_nova]

Ficus palmeri looks a good bet! (Rock Fig) southern Baja California and
Mexico.http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Moraceae/Ficus_palmeri.html

[HelenB]

Thanks Steve and Michael for your prompt replies. Rock Fig definitely would fit the leaf shape and habitat. The whole hotel/condominium complex in this part of Cabo was being built on and around very interesting rocky outcrops.

[steve_nova]

Helen, Isn't it funny that the two replies that you got so far are from people from Northumberland? Perhaps we just breed good botanists here.

[HelenB]

Could it be even stranger that I'm a Cumbrian by birth (Penrith, which is only 75 miles from Newcastle) and my husband spent 4 years at N/C-upon-Tyne University back in the 60's!!

[Joern Lehmhus]

I´d also have said Ficus palmeri...had one on my window sill for several years (Indoors), until a flatmate had forgotten to close the window in a freezing night (I was in South Africa at that time)...