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Ficus?? need definition


JuliaT

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Hello everyone!))
I bought a plant. The label says -Ficus bussei. So it looked when buying.
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He began to grow very fast and does not look like a photo from the Internet.

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And a photo of my Ficus:blink:

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Help identify, please!

 

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I cant help with ID either, but I like it!  I want one!

 

Do you grow other ficus spp.?

Waimarama New Zealand (39.5S, 177E)

Oceanic temperate

summer 25C/15C

winter 15C/6C

No frost, no heat

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I think this is Coussapoa nymphaeifolia or a similar species.         

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SoCal and SoFla; zone varies by location.

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14 hours ago, fastfeat said:

I think this is Coussapoa nymphaeifolia or a similar species.         

Thank you so much! It looks like)))

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23 hours ago, Bennz said:

Я тоже могу помочь с идентификатором, но мне это нравится!  Я хочу один!

 

Вы выращиваете другие фикус spp.?

I have some. Ordinary ficus...benjamina, elastica, lyrata, alii, benghalensis and 3 sorts of carica.
this I accidentally saw in the store.. 
 

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Coussapoa looks quite similar to some Ficus species (esp. Ficus macrocarpa and F. casearoides), but Coussapoa are now considered in a different family-- Urticaceae-- instead of Moraceae for Ficus. Flowers and fruits are quite different between the two families.

There are a few dozen species in Coussapoa. Seems that C.nymphaeifolia, C. dealbata, C. villosa are others near the top of Google searches, but I've only seen a couple of small ones under glass. They are more tender than many Ficus in cultivation; they are not typically found in South Florida landscapes. And the "liana trees" in Spain are almost certainly Ficus macrophylla instead.

An interesting plant to acquire as a small houseplant, regardless of how it's mislabeled. And you've done well to keep this tender tropical tree alive indoors!

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SoCal and SoFla; zone varies by location.

'Home is where the heart suitcase is'...

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"If, as they say, there truly is no rest for the wicked, how can the Devil's workshop be filled with idle hands?"

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  • 2 years later...

Bumping this up as I also bought one that looks like JuliaT's. The web site for the producer lists it as F. bussei "Floris" but it looked to me more like F. brussii the common lowland form of Dammaropsis Diels from PNG. Those only slightly corrugated leaves and the pure size.  But it's not.

It's always difficult telling exactly from foliage but particularily juvenile floiage.   F. bussei does have very large leaves at this age.  However, looking at the number of  veins and their close position along the midrib it does look superficialy very different to anything F. bussei that I've seen on the net. The reallistic other option could be what is now considered a vicarient of bussei, F. recurvata from West Africa, whereas bussei is from East Africa.  F. recurvata has those corrugations and the leaf size.

To make matters a bit more confusing there is a huge ammount of variance in the size of the leaves of both. So maybe we just got the giant leaf form which is coincidentaly also more common while the tree is still a juvenile strangler. 

It was briefly exciting to think I had F. brusii even though I want the to me at any rate more desirable F. dammaropsis Diels, only to end up with F. bussei. Mine had lost its label so I was buying blind. I genuienly thought it was brussi. Was thinking now or never even if there are hardly any pleats and no lovely red midribs....only to discover it's F. bussei.

Roller coaster should be its name thats for sure.

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