| Description | A variegated form of the more common "Rubber Tree". |
|---|---|
| Plant Type | All Plants, Indoor Foliage |
| Hardiness Zone | tropical |
| Sunlight | In its native region it is found growing in full sun to deep shade. This gives it the ability to tolerate most light conditions if acclimated to the site. Prefers bright ligh |
| Moisture | In its native region Benjamin Fig is subjected to dry seasons and moist seasons. During the dry seasons it will drop its leaves to decrease the leaf surface area lowering the transpiration rate. To avoid this seasonal leaf drop keep it evenly moist. |
| Temperature | average house to warm |
| Fruit | fig-like, botanically called a syconium |
| Leaves | green with white variefation |
| Dimensions | This plant can be kept in a small pot or grown as an indoor tree. Very common as the large indoor trees in malls. Will reach over 100 feet in native sites |
| Propagation | cuttings |
| Author's Notes | At the school where I teach we cut the plants back 33-50% every spring and let them regrow in the greenhouse over the summer. Otherwise the plants would become too large. Plants growing in the home, I would do major pruning in the spring when the plants start to grow. They do not mind spending the summer outside in some semi-shaded spot. |
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