Cuban Laurel, Indian Laurel Fig, Green Island Fig, Chinese Banyan (Ficus microca

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palmbob Acton, CA(Zone 8b) May 05, 2004

Cuban Laurel, Indian Laurel Fig, Green Island Fig, Chinese Banyan
Ficus microcarpa

exceptionally large one on UCLA campus, Los Angeles

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NativePlantFan9 Boca Raton, FL(Zone 10a) Dec 12, 2004

To palmbob,
That looks more like the Weeping Fig (Ficus benjamina) than the species you are sending this picture to, which is Ficus microcarpa. I would like you to compare this picture to the one you posted just previously before this one, which is the correct photo of the species Ficus microcarpa. See the differences between the previous one, which is the right picture of Ficus microcarpa, and this one? This photo has more wispy leaves, exactly like the Weeping Fig (Ficus benjamina) than the much less wispy look of the leaves of Ficus microcarpa. Please reply! I hope you please understand what I mean.

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palmbob Acton, CA(Zone 8b) Dec 12, 2004

here's a close up of this same tree... still think it's benjamina?

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NativePlantFan9 Boca Raton, FL(Zone 10a) Dec 13, 2004

Actually, you're right...it's not a Weeping Fig. It just looked like that in the orginial photo. I'm still not sure it's a Laurel Fig (Ficus microcarpa) either, though. Could it be another species other than F. benjamina and F. microcarpa? Please reply!

P.s.: It dosn't look quite like F. microcarpa... are the leaves on F. microcarpa as round as this photo you are showing me shows?

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palmbob Acton, CA(Zone 8b) Dec 13, 2004

WEll, not sure... it was labeled as a Laurel Fig. Not a fig expert so I couldn't argue either way.

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NativePlantFan9 Boca Raton, FL(Zone 10a) Dec 13, 2004

It might be, or it might not be, you could say! Maybe it's just that this Laurel Fig (F. microcarpa) has rounder leaves than most other specimens I normally see here in central and southern Florida. Otherwise, you can't really tell. You might be right or not...

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TREEHUGR Now in Orlando, FL(Zone 9b) Dec 18, 2004

My first guess would have been benjamina because of the trunk and bark similarities but I admit, I ain't no expert and the leaves look different.

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