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Fungal diseases; Common name: Scientific name: Plants affected: Anthracnose Colletotrichum gloeosporioides: Fe, Fl Cercospora leaf spot Cercospora spp. Fe Corynespora leaf spot Corynespora cassiicola: Fb Gray mold Botrytis cinerea: Fe, Fl Phomopsis dieback Diplodia spp. Fb Southern blight Sclerotium rolfsii: Fb, Fe, Fl Verticillium wilt ...
Severe pruning — a.k.a. "coat racking" — is never good for ficus and other evergreen trees, but pruning during high heat is even worse.
Fig mosaic emaravirus (FMV) is a segmented, negative sense, single-stranded RNA virus that is determined to be the causal agent of fig mosaic disease (FMD) in fig plants, Ficus carica. [1] It is a member of the genus Emaravirus [ 2 ] and order Bunyavirales and is transmitted mainly by the eriophyid mite Aceria ficus . [ 3 ]
Today, the ficus trees stirring the controversy — believed to date to the late 1960s — create a shaded canopy across the avenue. Some of their benefits and drawbacks are on clear display.
Ficus benjamina, commonly known as weeping fig, benjamin fig [3] or ficus tree, and often sold in stores as just ficus, is a species of flowering plant in the family Moraceae, native to Asia and Australia. [4]
Ficus (/ ˈ f aɪ k ə s / [2] or / ˈ f iː k ə s / [3] [4]) is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes and hemiepiphytes in the family Moraceae.Collectively known as fig trees or figs, they are native throughout the tropics with a few species extending into the semi-warm temperate zone.
Ficus aurea sapling showing elliptic leaf shape at Long Key, Florida. Ficus aurea is a tree which may reach heights of 30 m (98 ft). [6] It is monoecious: each tree bears functional male and female flowers. [7] The size and shape of the leaves is variable. Some plants have leaves that are usually less than 10 cm (4 in) long while others have ...
A medium-sized to tall sized tree, Ficus mucuso can reach an height of 30 m, sometimes up to 40m; the plant commonly has prominent plank-like buttressed roots that sometimes extend for about 4 meters up the trunk. [2] The bark is smooth, cinnamon brown in color and rarely scaly. [2]