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Ficus petiolaris
Also called Rock Fig
Petiolate fig (Ficus petiolaris), also called rock fig, is a fig tree native to Mexico that grows to about 8 to 10 m as a houseplant and up to 30 m in the wild. It is grown best with moderate water and partial shade, and is a fig genus member commonly grown in its own right rather than the whole genus.
Ficus petiolaris, commonly known as petiolate fig, rock fig, and amacóztic, is a fig that is endemic to Mexico from Baja California and Sonora south to Oaxaca. It grows best with moderate water and partial shade. A unique feature is white hairs on the vein axils. Other common names include the Baja California rock fig, Palmer wild fig, and Brandegee wild fig.
Originally from Mexico, it is present in warm, semi-warm and temperate climates, between 550 and 1200 meters above sea level. Wild plant, associated with deciduous and sub-deciduous tropical forests, thorny forest, mesophilic mountain forest, oak and pine forests. In the Baja California Peninsula, this plant occurs from the southern Sierra de la Asamblea in central Baja California south into the Cape region of Baja California Sur, also present on many adjacent Gulf of California islands.
The bark was traditionally used by the Aztecs to make paper, known as amate. Many of the remaining Aztec codices were written on amate.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ficus petiolaris 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.
