Ficus polita, the heart-leaved fig, is a species of fig that is native to forests of tropical Africa,
The tree is found in Lowland rainforest and gallery forest (west and central Africa), coastal & dry forest (east and southern African coast), and on Madagascar. It grows up to elevations of .
Ficus polita is similar to the Pondoland fig, (Ficus bizanae), an endemic tropical forest species in South Africa. The leaves have entire margins and are often heart-shaped, with the tip acuminate.
The figs are borne on old wood, in small clusters on stumpy branchlets.
The pollinating wasp is Courtella bekiliensis bekiliensis <small>(Risbec)</small> in Madagascar, and Courtella bekiliensis bispinosa <small>(Wiebes)</small> on the African mainland.