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Old 30-12-2008, 12:05 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Dave Poole Dave Poole is offline
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Default Morton Bay fig

On Dec 29, 11:12*pm, Sacha wrote:
The reply was: "It is Ficus pumila a commonly grown climbing
fig"


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Many thanks, it helps indeed. *It must be yacht club, I think but it was the
only one in that vicinity. *And the fruit looks very similar though this was
grown as a hedge, not a climbing plant.


Ficus pumila and F. radicans have juvenile and adult (arborescent)
forms in much the same way as Ivy and Euonymus japonica. Cuttings
taken of adult growth will remain shrubby with the larger leaves and
could be used as a hedge. We never see the adult phases of these
Ficus in the UK, which is my excuse for not recognising something I've
used as groundcover here!