{"id":12092,"date":"2016-02-29T06:38:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T13:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12092"},"modified":"2016-02-27T02:55:12","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T09:55:12","slug":"moreton-bay-fig-root-branch-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/trees-and-shrubs\/tree-root-and-branch\/moreton-bay-fig-root-branch-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Moreton Bay Fig &#8211; Root &#038; Branch Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"FICUS WATKINSIANA-MORETON BAY FIG by YAZMDG 11,000 images, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yazmdg\/3787291477\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3177\/3787291477_cd41b5f99c.jpg\" alt=\"FICUS WATKINSIANA-MORETON BAY FIG\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ficus macrophylla, commonly known as the Moreton Bay Fig, is a large evergreen banyan tree of the Moraceae family. It shares the characteristics of most Fig trees.<\/p>\n<h2>Key Features of the Moreton Bay Fig<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Latin name<\/strong> &#8211; Ficus macrophylla other common names Strangler tree<\/li>\n<li><strong>Height<\/strong> &#8211; a tall tree up to 150 feet high and often wider than high.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Type of tree<\/strong> &#8211; Evergreen<\/li>\n<li><strong>Leaves <\/strong> &#8211; Large, elliptical and leathery with dark green upper and rusty brown beneath.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flowers<\/strong> &#8211; Tiny flowers enclosed in a fig receptical<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fruit <\/strong> &#8211; Fig ripening from green to purple<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bark<\/strong> &#8211; Smooth grey-brown<\/li>\n<li><strong>Family<\/strong> &#8211; Moraceae or Banyan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Origins and Distribution of the Moreton Bay Fig<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Native to Eastern Australia.<\/li>\n<li>It grows best in rainforest conditions.<\/li>\n<li>This fig is cultivated in Hawaii where the pollinating wasp was deliberatly introduced and in northern New Zealand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Moreton Bay Fig Tree by ~Prescott, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ppym1\/154644746\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/47\/154644746_b82fc14bfa.jpg\" alt=\"Moreton Bay Fig Tree\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Uses and Attributes of the Moreton Bay Fig<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A distinctive tree that has been cultivated to grow in parks and to grace avenues..<\/li>\n<li>The soft light timber is used for cases.<\/li>\n<li>Aborigines traditionally used the fibres for fishing nets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Gardeners Root Tips for the Moreton Bay Fig<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The tree germinates at the top of a host tree and drops aerial roots down to the ground.<\/li>\n<li>It eventually kills the host tree by strangulation .<\/li>\n<li>The tree grows a magnificent crown that is supported by a butress of roots which spread around the tree matching the crown.<\/li>\n<li>The roots are surface feeding and water-hungry. When young it grows as an epiphyte<\/li>\n<li>As with other figs it is pollinated by a specific species of wasp<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"19 Moreton Bay Fig Tree by The City Project, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cityprojectca\/3796897396\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2673\/3796897396_8b21984f1c.jpg\" alt=\"19 Moreton Bay Fig Tree\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Moreton Bay Fig comments from elsewhere<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Named after Moreton bay in Queensland.<\/li>\n<li>They are very thirsty trees and can be very invasive of domestic drainage systems. Not to be recommended on a suburban quarter acre block! <em>lane reality Australia<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Moreton Bay Fig Tree, Santa Barbara by FarOutFlora, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/faroutflora\/5295103789\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5084\/5295103789_10446532b2.jpg\" alt=\"Moreton Bay Fig Tree, Santa Barbara\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Credits<\/strong><br \/>\nFICUS WATKINSIANA-MORETON BAY FIG by YAZMDG CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<br \/>\n19 Moreton Bay Fig Tree by The City Project CC BY-NC-SA 2.0<br \/>\nMoreton Bay Fig Tree, Santa Barbara by FarOutFlora CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<br \/>\nMoreton Bay Fig Tree by ~PrescottCC BY-NC 2.0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noted for its massive and complex roots the Moreton Bay Fig is native to Eastern Australia and has adapted from rain forests to parks and streets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tree-root-and-branch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}