Editing Ficus macrophylla (section)

===Potentially invasive species===
[[File:MoretonBayNaturalisedNZ.jpg|thumb|right|A young Moreton Bay fig starts life as an epiphyte in an [[Auckland]], New Zealand, park]]
''Ficus macrophylla'' is commonly cultivated in [[Hawaii]] and northern [[New Zealand]]. In both places, it has now [[Introduced species|naturalised]], having acquired its pollinating wasp (''Pleistodontes froggatti''). In Hawaii, the wasp was deliberately introduced in 1921, and in New Zealand it was first recorded in 1993, having arrived by long-distance dispersal from Australia. The arrival of the wasp led to prolific production of fruits containing many small seeds adapted for dispersal by birds. The Moreton Bay fig has been found growing on both native and introduced trees in New Zealand and Hawaii. The size and vigour of this fig in New Zealand, and its lack of natural enemies, as well as its immunity to [[common brushtail possum|possum]] browsing, indicate that it may be able to invade forest and other native plant communities.<ref name = Starr2003/><ref name=Gardner1996>{{cite journal | last = Gardner | first = Rhys O. | author2 = John W. Early | year = 1996 | title = The naturalisation of banyan figs (''Ficus'' spp., Moraceae) and their pollinating wasps (Hymenoptera: Agaonidae) in New Zealand | journal = New Zealand Journal of Botany | volume = 34 | pages = 103–10 | url = http://www.rsnz.org/publish/nzjb/1996/115.php | doi = 10.1080/0028825x.1996.10412697 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080719032605/http://www.rsnz.org/publish/nzjb/1996/115.php | archive-date = 19 July 2008 }}</ref> Occasional [[garden escape]]es have been recorded in Turkey.<ref>{{cite journal | title= Alien flora of Turkey: checklist, taxonomic composition and ecological attributes | first1=Ahmet |last1= Uludag| first2= Necmi |last2= Aksoy| first3= Ayşe |last3=Yazlık| first4=Zubeyde Filiz |last4=Arslan| first5=Efecan |last5=Yazmış| first6=Ilhan |last6=Uremis| first7=Tiziana Antonella |last7=Cossu| first8=Quentin |last8=Groom| first9=Jan |last9=Pergl| first10=Petr |last10=Pyšek| first11=Giuseppe |last11= Brundu | journal=NeoBiota | volume=35 | pages=61–85 | doi=10.3897/neobiota.35.12460 | year=2017 | doi-access=free }}</ref>