 Ficus obliqua occurs from Mount Dromedary ( 36 ° S ) in southern New South Wales northwards along the coast and Great Dividing Range to the tip of Cape York Peninsula in north Queensland . Outside Australia it occurs on New Guinea and offshore islands , through eastern Indonesia to Sulawesi in the west and east into the southwestern Pacific , where it is found in New Caledonia , Fiji , Tonga , Samoa and Vanuatu . It had been thought to occur in Western Australia , but these collections have been now referred to Ficus brachypoda . Preferring soils with high nutrient and water content , it occurs on sandstone or <unk> soils in the Sydney region . The habitat is warm temperate to moist subtropical rainforest . Large specimens can rise above the canopy as emergent trees . 
