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Have you seen this before?

Posted: February 11th, 2014, 3:34 pm
by bamboos
Hi all,
Recently while driving along a country road I came across this
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I stopped to have a look and found these
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Here is the tree
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And a further view
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Who has picked Ficus racemosa?
I haven't seen one with this many fruit before --- it is an Aussie species shared with se Asia and as you can see it bears it's fruit on the trunk and branches in bunches. There must have even several thousand on the road with just as many still on the tree :cool:
I wish I had a few fig recipes :crybye:
Regards Steve

Re: Have you seen this before?

Posted: February 11th, 2014, 4:24 pm
by Andrew F
Hey steve, might be worth your while to try and strike a few cuttings. Cant have enough ficus var in your collection :cool:

Re: Have you seen this before?

Posted: February 11th, 2014, 6:01 pm
by bamboos
Unfortunately I'm several thousand Klms south of it now.
Don't know how they would go in bonsai culture maybe Ash or one of nth members would have a better idea
I don't think I have seen one bonsaied
It's also called the cluster fig
Regards Steve

Re: Have you seen this before?

Posted: February 12th, 2014, 12:35 pm
by Jason
Very cool, haven't seen a fig that fruits like that before, thanks for sharing :)

Re: Have you seen this before?

Posted: February 13th, 2014, 7:48 am
by bamboos
Hi Jason
The fruiting habit is called cauliflory and happens on some other figs and even some Syzgium species as well as other trees
Regards Steve

Re: Have you seen this before?

Posted: February 13th, 2014, 10:59 am
by Jason
bamboos wrote:Hi Jason
The fruiting habit is called cauliflory and happens on some other figs and even some Syzgium species as well as other trees
Regards Steve
Thanks for that Steve, I had no idea :tu2: Looks so strange!