Scientific Name:
Ficus pumila
Pronunciation:
FYE-kus PEW-mih-luh
Common Name:
creeping fig
Family Name:
Moraceae
Plant Type:
Indoor foliage plant, Vine or climber
Key ID Features:
A fast-growing, climbing vine with adhesive aerial rootlets; leaves ovate, bases cordate or uneven, up to 2.5cm long.
Habit:
Spreading
Form:
Climbing, Creeping / Mat-like, Weeping
Texture:
Medium - fine
Mature Height:
2 - 3m
Mature Spread:
1.0 - 1.5m
Growth Rate:
Fast
Origin:
S.E. Asia / Japan / China
Hardiness Rating:
Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C)
Exposure:
Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade
Soil/Growing Medium:
Water Use:
Moderate
Landscape Uses:
Container planting, Hanging basket, Indoor plant
Additional Info:
Google. Award of Garden Merit, RHS. Cultivars shown or on campus may include of F. 'Variegata'.
Leaf Morphology:
Form:
Simple
Arrangement:
Alternate
Texture/Venation:
Soft flexible
Surfaces:
Glabrous
Shapes:
Ovate
Apices:
Obcordate
Bases:
Cordate, Oblique (uneven)
Margins:
Entire
Additional Info:
Only juvenile foliage is shown
Inflorescence Type:
Flower Morphology:
Colour (petals):
No flowers, Green
Flower Time at Peak:
Additional Info:
Florets in a syconium (rarely formed locally)
Fruit Type:
Multiple fruit
Fruit Colour:
Green, Purple
Fruiting Time:
Additional Info:
Showy, Accessory tissue, Fruit rarely seen locally. Called a syconium, a fruit type only found in figs - formed by an enlarged, fleshy, hollow receptacle with multiple ovaries on the inside surface.
Bark or Stem Colour:
Organ Modifications:
Aerial or climbing roots
Propagation:
Layering, Stem tip cuttings
Optimal Temp.:
Medium
Light Level:
Medium
Maintenance:
Low
Pest Susceptibility:
Mites, Scale insects (Disease resistant)
