Ficus Burtt Davyi Bonsai

The glossy green leaves are more or less oval in shape and can vary in size from about 2 to 10 cm in length depending on its habitat.

Ficus burtt davyi bonsai. Ficus burtt davii are used extensively for bonsai in the western cape but i believe not so much in the rest of south africa. Specific bonsai care guidelines for the ficus bonsai. Even the large leaf form has leaves that are only two or three inches in length. Ficus burtt davyi grows as a creeper shrub or small tree 0 5 5 m tall depending on habitat where it grows.

Leaves are simple alternate glossy green more or less oval in shape with a recurved tip. The fruits are about 10 mm in diameter and are green mottled with white turning yellowish when ripe. Multi stemmed with smooth silvery grey to grey bark. Ficus burtt davyi is one of the figs that is not too infrequently used for bonsai.

Ficus burtt davyi veld fig age. A dry hot area. 22cm tall x 23cm wide this tree is available for shipping. Birds feast on the green figs.

It grows in coastal and inland forests up to 1500m from the vicinity of mossel bay in the southern cape to southern mozambique the forms growing on coastal dunes in the northern part of its range are salt tolerant and form low thickets on the margins of woodland. Ficus burtt davyi grows as a shrub climber or small tree. It can be kept outside in summer if temperatures are above 15 degrees c 59f and it needs lots of light full sun is ideal in the house as well as outside if the tree is exposed to the ultraviolet radiation gradually or if it is defoliated before placing the tree outside. In the southern and eastern cape forests the species becomes a strangler or liane while when found on rocky outcrops.

A grower deceased now found these really old trees at the cango caves near oudtshoorn. This small fig tree is indigenous to south africa and can grow as a scrub a free standing tree or a creeper depending on its location. There are many cultivars of this fig differentiated by small medium or large leaves. Life is a garden is helping you bring the outdoors indoors with a few fabulous ideas tips and trends and a whole lot of.

This month we re talking all about taking your passion for gardening to the bedroom living room office and everywhere else. The scrambling fig must be planted far away from pipes and buildings because of an aggressiveroot system. The ficus bonsai tree is an indoor bonsai which cannot endure frost. Why stop at gumboots and sun hats.

Is a fig species endemic to southern africa belonging to the mulberry family of moraceae.