Ficus Microcarpa Bonsai Tree

In the wild this type of ficus is a robust and hardy plant.

Ficus microcarpa bonsai tree. Sometimes it is grafted with ficus microcarpa leaves combining it to a ficus microcarpa ginseng. Ficus microcarpa is a tropical tree with smooth light gray bark and entire oblanceolate leaves about 2 2 5 inches 5 6 cm long which in mediterranean climates grows to about forty feet twelve meters tall and with an equal spread of crown. Typical for all fig bonsai species is their milky latex sap which will leak from wounds or cuts. Later he began to move to bermuda and some tropical areas of the united states of america.

Alternative names are ficus retusa ginsen ficus chinese banyan malayan banyan tigerbark fig indian laurel curtain fig and many more. Some figs can become very large trees with a crown circumference of more than 300 m 1000 ft. Where conditions are favorable for the banyan habit tropical and humid subtropical it grows much larger producing great numbers of prop roots. Ficus microcarpa is native to southern china and the islands of oceania but its success as an easy houseplant means it now spans the world.

Ficus microcarpa is a tree species which may grow into 20 meters tall trees. Initially it grew in natural conditions only on the island of borneo located in southeast asia. A relative of the common fig tree this ficus is particularly well suited to bonsai.