Microcarpa or Retusa?

[Glenda]

cool glenda, happy to trade for sure, anything in particular you are after?

Wait until I see if the cuttings take! Shouldn't be a problem. I would love a swampie, I think The cuttings are very small at present, you would be waiting a long time for a sumo style, but then we would be the only ones with this variety, looks like! Be an exclusive variety But they do grow fairly fast, and lots of aerial roots you could train to fuse to help thicken the trunk

Maybe we could get it recognised as a cultivar in it's own right and have it named after us!

Glenda

[Jamie]

Maybe we could get it recognised as a cultivar in it's own right and have it named after us!

maybe!!!

as for a swampy i think i can accomodate that! i have a couple of small ones, they are of a starter size but i have been able to put 20mm on the trunk width in about 4-5 months using power feeding and growing in water bowls, it is starting to butress a little too.

let me know when these cuttings take, i would say you have a high chance rate on them, and i will sort it out


jamie

[Glenda]

maybe!!!

as for a swampy i think i can accomodate that! i have a couple of small ones, they are of a starter size but i have been able to put 20mm on the trunk width in about 4-5 months using power feeding and growing in water bowls, it is starting to butress a little too.

let me know when these cuttings take, i would say you have a high chance rate on them, and i will sort it out


jamie

Deal! If you power feed these figs I am sure they will take off, too.

Glenda

[yadibrar]

hello dear glenda,
the unknown plant u were talking abt is...
Ficus nuda (Miq.) Miq.
Synonym of Ficus benjamina L. var. nuda (Miq.) M. F. Barrett
Family: Moraceae
i also have sameone.....

[yadibrar]

hello dear glenda,
the unknown plant u were talking abt is
Ficus nuda (Miq.) Miq.
Synonym of Ficus benjamina L. var. nuda (Miq.) M. F. Barrett
Family: Moraceae
i also have sameone....

[yadibrar]

one beautiful example of it is
http://www.artofbonsai.org/art-of-bonsa ... S_NUDA.jpg

[dayne]

its probably midnight beauty or a cross ive seen a few like that as i said in your first post about id you cant all ways do it with figs some of the best hort people in this country cant id all figs its impossible theres to many and to many crosses

[Jamie]

thats what i was trying to ecplain dayne! i think i have a hybrid of midnight beauty, it has some very, very tight foliage groupings, and grows very very strongly, the leaves are quite small too, not as small as what glenda is saying but will reduce too!

[Glenda]

one beautiful example of it is
http://www.artofbonsai.org/art-of-bonsa ... S_NUDA.jpg

Thanks for that yadibrar - that one does look more like what I have.

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[Glenda]

More photos.

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About 5 leaves on the whole plant are a bit over 2 cm, all the rest are around 1cm length. Never been defoliated. A great little fig. You can see from my avatar picture which was taken in January how much it has grown in just 4 months.

Glenda

[Jamie]

gday glenda!

to me this is screaming benjimina, posibbly a variation like midnight beuaty, but the leaf size and the bark throw me off, the bark looks like microcarpa retusa so im confused, like i said there is so many cultivars and variations of cultivars it is extremely hard to ID exactly without getting scientific testing done !

i would be treating it like any other fig and enjoy the small leaves!!

look forward to the cuttings

jamie

[Glenda]

gday glenda!

to me this is screaming benjimina, posibbly a variation like midnight beuaty, but the leaf size and the bark throw me off, the bark looks like microcarpa retusa so im confused, like i said there is so many cultivars and variations of cultivars it is extremely hard to ID exactly without getting scientific testing done !

i would be treating it like any other fig and enjoy the small leaves!!

look forward to the cuttings

jamie

Did you look at the link yadibrar showed? Looks most like that one - Ficus benjamina var nuda

Glenda

[Jamie]

well there ya go!! no wonder i was thinking benji.!!! so many variations, its daunting