Weeping fig
வெள்ளால்വെള്ളാൽলক্ষ পাকুড়
Ficus benjamina L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 3.2 m
- wide
- 2.0 m
Moraceae
Also called Chinese Banyan
Formerly Ficus benjaminoides, Ficus comosa, Ficus cuspidatocaudata, Ficus haematocarpa, and 17 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & Subtrop. Asia and N. AustraliaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension full, part, shade; RHS full
- Height
- 2.5 m to 4.0 mRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 5–30 ft; RHS 2.5–4 m
- Spread
- 1.5 m to 2.5 mRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 3–30 ft; RHS 1.5–2.5 m
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension and RHS, not yet checkedBacked by both sources. Checker: NC State Extension page does not state medium: no moisture level given; drainage listed as very dry, advice only to keep soil from fully drying
- Flowers
- Orange, red, purple, greenRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- 2 °C (USDA zone 10b)Read from NC State Extension and RHS, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension -1.1 °C; RHS 5 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Laurel de la India, Ficus, Falso Laurel
- Portuguese
- Figueirinha, Figueira-benjamim
- Chinese
- 白榕, 垂葉榕 (垂榕), 柳葉榕
- Estonian
- bensoe-viigipuu
- Chinese (China)
- 垂叶榕, 柳叶榕
- Finnish
- limoviikuna
- Czech
- fíkovník drobnolistý
- Russian
- Фикус Бенджамина
- Japanese
- シダレガジュマル, ベンジャミンゴムノキ, シロガジュマル
- Sinhala
- වලු නුග
- Indonesian
- Beringin
- Greek
- Φίκος μπέντζαμιν, Κλαίουσα, Μπενζαμίνη
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-28, fact, cited
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Ficus benjamina (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.