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Ficus green foliage plants

Ficus belonging to the Moraceae family and are distributed throughout warm regions of the world, especially in Asia. Include more than 600 different species, as a fig tree, many of which are commonly used as houseplants for their attractive foliage and its development as seedlings.

• Features include trees. shrubs and vines, evergreen and deciduous.
• flowering, rare, appears in spring and summer.
• The fruit, pear-shaped, not really a fruit, but a set syconium called fruit. Some are edible or have attractive orange or purple colors. When making cuts
• emit latex, a milky watery substance that on contact with air, it solidifies quickly.
• Many have the power to issue aerial roots that eventually reach the ground and rooted, looking in vain have the ficus trees. Some are epifrtos
• ie, germinate and grow on other plants but not living at their expense, although often end up drowning.
• replaced in the hot zones to large hardwood trees in the cold areas, offering a fresh and pleasant shade.

Species Ficus benjamina

• also called weeping fig, is from Malaysia and is an evergreen with sleek, thin branches and small green leaves tapered elliptical. In humid issued striking aerial roots.
• need to be located in well-lit and away from drafts. Is multiplied by apical stem cuttings in spring. Ficus deltoidea

• mistelote Known as fig, is from the peninsula Indomalaya. It is a shrub with small rounded leaves of bright green. Very young fruits and fruit take a nice yellow-orange before falling.
• is not very popular, although it is one of the most resistant and easier cultivation. Tolerates exposure in dark areas and withstands temperatures of up to 5 ° C can be multiplied by cuttings or layering in spring. It is convenient to choose examples of compact appearance. Ficus elastic

• Called rubber tree and proceeds of the peninsula Indomalaya, is an evergreen tree, of great development, with elliptical leaves, leathery and glossy dark green, wrapped before opening in a pod finished red tip.
• prefers sunny situations, warm environments and water.
• very well be playing air layering. Ficus lyrata

• Comúnmepte lira called ficus leaf, comes from tropical Africa. It is a perennial plant of majestic appearance, with large deep green leaves.
• grows slowly and requires some care more than other species.
• is very sensitive to temperature changes. Foliage should be sprayed frequently, but without using abnllantadores. Is multiplied by air layering or by cuttings in spring and summer terminals. Ficus

pumice

• ficus is the climber and comes from Formosa and China. Unlike the others, is helped by its small aerial roots to attach to surfaces. It has small rounded leaves that, at maturity, they become oval and large.
• Prefers shade and moist environments. The humidity should be extended to the substrate, for if allowed to dry. even time, dies. In spring you can cut apical cuttings about 10 inches long, but also multiplied by layering. Uses

The ficus tree that has a cover, such as ficus Ficus lyrata and elastic, me singular. Those with thin, flexible stems, such as the ficus pumila. can be used as climbers, as pendants or as trailing plants for covering the window boxes. Growing

• Although exposures support half-shaded, the ficus prefer bright, but never in full sun. The dense shade causes defoliation and plant death.
• Some resist temperatures near 0 ° C for short periods of time, however, the ideal for its development is that the temperature is never less than 10 ° C
• Soils should be fertile, with a high content organic matter, moist and well drained.
• Irrigation should be moderate, especially when temperatures are low. During the spring and summer require a paid newspaper.
• If grown indoors. should pulverize frequently with warm water.

Pests and diseases are the main diseases caused by lack of light, excess denied and low temperature, usually causing leaf yellowing and subsequent fall.

• In dry environments are attacked by spider mites, you fought with frequent sprays with an acaricide. Also the leaves are sensitive to mealybugs, so that must be addressed one by one with a cotton swab methyl alcohol.