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Audrey Banyan Fig
Ficus benghalensis ‘Audrey’
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
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Request photosHow tall it arrives: 90L about 1.5 to 2.5m, 100L about 2.5 to 3.5m, 200L about 3 to 4.5m. Heights vary with species and season. How pot sizes work
Getting it in: the largest size here needs about 1.2m of clear, level access. Measure the narrowest point on the route and tell us on the booking call. Standard access is included in the price, and anything unusual is quoted and agreed with you before work begins. What happens on installation day
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Audrey Banyan Fig - Ficus benghalensis ‘Audrey’
The banyan fig is one of the great shade trees of the tropics, and ‘Audrey’ is the selection grown for its broad, softly velvety leaves with pale, clearly marked veins. Ficus benghalensis builds a wide, low-branching canopy and, in humid climates, drops aerial roots that thicken into secondary trunks so that a single tree eventually behaves like a grove. That is exactly why siting matters more here than with almost any other tree on this list: it is a magnificent plant on acreage, in a park or in a large atrium, and a serious mistake within 15m of a house, pool, pipe run or driveway.
Why the Audrey Banyan
Velvet Foliage: Large, matt green leaves with prominent cream veins and a soft texture, quite different from the glossy rubber figs.
Spreading Canopy: It branches low and wide, throwing genuinely deep shade over a large footprint.
Aerial Roots: In humid conditions curtains of aerial roots descend and thicken into props, creating the classic banyan character.
Fast Establishment: It moves quickly once its roots are into warm soil, making scale in a few seasons rather than decades.
Aggressive Root System: The roots are invasive and long ranging; allow at least 15 to 20m clearance from buildings, paving, drains and pools, or grow it confined in a large container.
Ideal Applications
Acreage Shade Tree: Standing alone in a paddock or large lawn where it has unrestricted room.
Parkland and Estate Planting: Its scale suits civic and large private landscapes designed around a single dominant tree.
Tropical Statement Planting: A centrepiece in a resort-style garden with generous space around it.
Large Container or Atrium: Root restriction in a pot holds it at a manageable indoor or courtyard size.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 12 to 15m if planted as a canopy line; it is not a hedging plant
Spacing (feature/avenue): 20m or more
Best Planting Season: Spring to early autumn while soil is warm
Soil & Drainage: Adaptable to most free draining soils; it prefers deep loam but will grow in sand and clay loam alike
Establishment Care: Water deeply twice weekly through the first two summers, then reduce as growth accelerates, since it becomes quite drought tolerant with age. Mulch a wide ring clear of the trunk, and plan the position around mature root spread rather than the size of the tree on delivery day.
Plant Details
Height: 10 to 20m in Australian gardens, larger over long periods in the tropics
Width: 10 to 20m or more
Growth Rate: Fast
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun, tolerates part shade when young
Native to: The Indian subcontinent
Flower Colour: Insignificant, followed by small red figs
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







