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Article: Ficus benjamina has some cousins big-leafed, colorful, ceiling-scraping, compact.
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- Sunset
- Article date:
- March 1, 1984
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Ficus benjamina has some cousins . . . big-leafed, colorful, ceiling-scraping, compact
Ask for a ficus at a plant shop and you'll probably be shown a weeping fig: Ficus benjamina. In recent years, the popularity of this one member of the fig family has obscured a number of other ornamental figs that make equally good house plants. Some of them have been quietly making news in their own right, while attention has been focused on their prima donna cousin.
All these figs, except for variegated weeping fig, are less sensitive to variations in water, light, and heat than Ficus benjamina. Rubber plant, the most invincible of the group, shrugs off most ...