Like all the species of this genus, Diner Plate Fig produces a multiple fruit call a syconium. Inside the syconium there are fleshy cavities that contain unisexual male and female flowers. The male flower produce pollen and the female flowers produce seeds. The female flowers of this species are pollinated only by the wasp Ceratosolen abnormis.
(Corner, E.J.H. 1978. Ficus dammaropsis and the multibracteate species of Ficus.)
(Wagner, W.L., D.R. Herbst, and S.H. Sohmer. 1999. Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai'i.)

The bark is used in making string and head coverings.
(Currey, Bruce. 1980. Famine in the Pacific. Losing the chances for change. GeoJournal 4(5):447-466.)

The miniscule wasp Ceratosolen abnormis enters the syconium through an opening at the upper end of the fruit. The wasp enters to lay her eggs and in doing so she also pollinates the female flowers. Neither fig nor the wasp can reproduce without this cooperation. Without the wasp there can be no seeds for the fig and without the specialized fruit of the fig tree there is no perpetuation of the species for the wasp.
(Ramirez, B.W. 1970. Host Specificity of Fig Wasps (Agaonidae). Evol. 24: 680-691.)
(Corner, E.J.H. 1978. Ficus dammaropsis and the multibracteate species of Ficus.)

(Information for this species compiled and recorded by Camelia Cirnaru, NTBG Consultant.)