Indoor Gardening and Houseplants: What is your Oldest Houseplant?, 0 by tapla

tapla wrote:
I wish I had known I'd be asked for a photo of this plant. I would have taken one earlier in the year. Ficus nerifolia (common name - willow leaf fig) is extremely sensitive to decreasing light levels (even worse than Ficus benjamina), so in anticipation of bringing it indoors, I pruned it hard two weeks ago. True to form, the plant lost most of its remaining leaves when I brought it in, but you can see the branch structure & the fact that it is trained in the mother/daughter style. In a couple of weeks, it will have a new flush of foliage.

The composition is 38-1/2 inches tall, measured from the bottom of the pot. Despite its appearance in the photo, the plant is perfectly healthy & very vigorous. ;o)

Al