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Ficus brachypoda is a small fig tree from northern and central Australia and Timor, found in seasonally dry tropical and semi-arid areas. It is a banyan-type fig; the key to growing it is warmth, good light and well-drained soil, and it is rarely grown as a houseplant.
Ficus brachypoda is a tree in the family Moraceae native to northern and central Australia and to Timor in the Lesser Sunda Islands. It is a banyan of the genus Ficus which contains around 750 species worldwide in warm climates, including the edible fig (Ficus carica).
Ficus brachypoda is likely a species complex. A new species Ficus desertorum was split from the group.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ficus brachypoda by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
Pet safety from the ASPCA toxic and non-toxic plant lists.
