AusBonsai

As part of the restructuring of my collection I have 2 figs that were collected from a rocky hillside south of Maitland to sell. They can be barerooted to post or collection from Newcastle. Sydney pickup can also be arranged. Any reasonable offer will be accepted. Matt

Hi Matt,

The first one looks rightish, but the second one looks more like Ficus Macrofolia (Moreton Bay Fig) or Ficus rubiginosa (Port Jackson Fig). Ficus eugenioides is now known as Ficus obliqua, or Queensland small leaf fig, and your second one the leaves look too big, and the new shoots are pink, more like Moreton Bay fig. Ficus obliqua has green shoots. I may be wrong, if so, someone please correct me.

Glenda

ficus Eugonoides and ficus obliqua are two seperate types of fig. ficus obliqua is a little rounder in the leaf than ficus eugonoides and F. Eug. has red growing tips.

both the ficus obliqua and eugonoides are very similar and have large leaves even though they are called queensland small leaf. ficus rubiginosa can have some red in the growing tips and will also havee (sometimes not) a furry underside to the leaf.

It is very hard to ID figs these days as cross pollination and hybrids have caused a lot of inbreeding in figs.. putting a stamp down on an identification by just a leaf alone can not be done.

this being a [SELL] thread, I think if you have any queries on the tree, ask the question, not stamp it done as gospel.

I did not collect these 2 trees. The ID for these trees is as I was given when I acquired them.The first tree is not showing very good colour, needing a good feed & probably potting into better mix. The largest leaf on either tree is 8cm & on ground growing some others from the same site they do not get any bigger unlike my moreton bays which have leaves up to 25cm.

Jamie, even the experts differ as to whether eugenioides & obliqua are the same or 2 diff species. Being an isolated tree hybridising between others is out of the question. The differences would be due to genetic variance that will show in all seed grown plants, hence why nurseries propagate by cutting or other methods rather than relying on seed to produce a consistent product.

Matt

Hi are these still available, im situated in newcastle and have been looking for a fig or two to add to my collection, cheers dave

Both trees sold... thanks all