Ficus benjamina - Weeping Fig
By Delonix1
26 Mar, 2015
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This weeping fig is growing in Fremont in the San Francisco Bay Area. Typically, this tree stays pretty small in the SF Bay Area. Photo taken March 1, 2015.
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I've seen many F. benjamina trees in San Jose this size. There's several trees this size or larger located at a car lot across the 880 freeway from the Oakland Coliseum.
This tree is down the street from the Cape Chestnut on Roberts St. There's used to be three other F. benjamina trees on Roberts. They were the same size as this one and there for many years.
1 Apr, 2015
The problem with bay areans Andy, is..when a tropical gets frost damage in one of the very cold spells they always take it as killing the plant. They most times don't let the plant grow out of it,they cut the whole thing down.
Its tropical plant horticultural ignorance. Oh well.
1 Apr, 2015
I have seen that. I knew of a beautiful king palm which starting coming back faster than any other king palms I saw in Hayward...and it was cut down. If you remember the freeze of 1990, about two weeks later the weather turned unusually warm.
2 Apr, 2015
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Holy Smokes!. Biggest F.benjamina I've seen here. I did see another as a street sidewalk tree in Richmond or Pinole. I was watching a live news story- and I could see it behind the reporter. It wasn't that big though.
Ok,what street? I might have to drive by. I still get doubters about growing subtropicals in the bay area. Usually the SF and Berkeley crowd who cant imagine a warm bay area summer day.
1 Apr, 2015