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Ficus salicifolia, the Wonderboom, is an evergreen fig tree or large shrub from Africa, Arabia and Iran that usually grows on rocky slopes and cliffs near water. It is rarely grown as an ornamental, and it does best with plenty of sun and good drainage.
The Wonderboom (Ficus salicifolia) is a species of evergreen fig that ranges from the KwaZulu-Natal midlands northwards to tropical East Africa, the Saharan mountains, Arabian Peninsula, and Iran. It grows especially on outcrops, rocky hillsides and along cliffs fringing water courses and may rarely grow up to 10 m (33 ft) tall, and acquire a leafy spreading crown.
It occurs in the Saharo-montane woodlands of the Tassili n'Ajjer, the Hoggar, Aïr and Tibesti mountains, the Kerkour Nourene massif and at Elba mountain in the Red Sea Hills. It is widespread in the eastern Afrotropics, from southern Arabia and Socotra to the KwaZulu-Natal midlands of South Africa.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ficus salicifolia 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.
