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Ficus pumila

COMMON NAME

Creeping fig or climbing fig

TYPE

Vine

FAMILY

Moraceae

NOTES

A woody evergreen liana, growing 15 feet or more when grown outdoors. The juvenile foliage is much smaller and thinner than mature leaves produced as the plant ages. In Latin ‘pumila’ means "dwarf", and refers to those juvenile small leaves of the plant.

GEOGRAPHIC REGION

Southern China, Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam

NATIVE HABITAT

Widely found in varying locations

WEB SOURCES

wikipedia.org

tropical.theferns.info

missouribotanicalgarden.org



Ficus pumila