This attractive tree is growing on our driveway, decorated with its red fruit. There are a few sandpaper figs locally, but this is the rainforest (upland) species Ficus fraseri. The creek sandpaper fig, Ficus coronata, has edible fruit, but these ones just taste recognisably figgy – thats as far as I’d go for palatability, although the fruit bats love them and land for a feed every evening.
By the way, the name is for real. The leaves are very finely rough and can be used for sanding wood. I think I have the creek version down at the dam (I haven’t done a proper check yet) but if so I will try some propagation as it is supposed to be a good stream bank stabiliser, and if the fruit are good, so much the better.