Creeping fig
படர் அத்திമതിൽപറ്റിলতা বট
Ficus pumila L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 3.5 m
- wide
- 1.4 m
Moraceae
Also called Climbing fig, Ticky Creeper, Tickey Creeper, Creeping Rubber Plant, Tickey Fig
Formerly Plagiostigma pumila
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
- Climbing shrub or lianaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. & S. China to Temp. E. Asia and Indo-ChinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 2.4 m to 4.6 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 91 cm to 1.8 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -5.6 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension -12.2 °C; Wikipedia 1 °C
Not known yet: flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Higuera trepadora, Hiedra, Uñita
- Chinese
- 薜荔, 文頭郎, 木蓮
- Estonian
- roomav viigipuu
- Japanese
- オオイタビ, 大木蓮子, 大崖石榴
- Czech
- fíkovník plazivý
- Portuguese
- Unha-de-Gato, Figueira-Trepadeira, Mama-de-Parede
- Indonesian
- Karet Rambat
- root
- tabakai
- Lithuanian
- Smulkusis fikusas
- Italian
- Fico rampicante
- Russian
- Фикус карликовый
- Korean
- 왕모람
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 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Ficus pumila (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.