Ficus Microcarpa Bonsai Tree

Ficus microcarpa or ficus green island is an evergreen tree belonging to the mulberry.

Ficus microcarpa bonsai tree. Ficus microcarpa is a tree species which may grow into 20 meters tall trees. Ficus microcarpa is a tropical tree with smooth light gray bark and entire oblanceolate leaves about 2 2 5 inches 5 6 cm long which in mediterranean climates grows to about forty feet twelve meters tall and with an equal spread of crown. Sometimes it is grafted with ficus microcarpa leaves combining it to a ficus microcarpa ginseng. Some figs can become very large trees with a crown circumference of more than 300 m 1000 ft.

In the wild this type of ficus is a robust and hardy plant. You will be pleasantly surprised to find that a ginseng ficus bonsai tree is not only great looking but extremely easy to care for. Where conditions are favorable for the banyan habit tropical and humid subtropical it grows much larger producing great numbers of prop roots. Ficus microcarpa is native to southern china and the islands of oceania but its success as an easy houseplant means it now spans the world.

Initially it grew in natural conditions only on the island of borneo located in southeast asia. A relative of the common fig tree this ficus is particularly well suited to bonsai. Ginseng ficus also called ficus microcarpa ficus retusa and banyan fig is not the medicinal ginseng plant but a type of fig.