Little Ruby Fig Bonsai

Little ruby is a gorgeous fruiting and ornamental tree that also makes an excellent specimen for bonsai or container gardening.

Little ruby fig bonsai.

Kimmen tiger fig. Most successful figs good for bonsai. A dwarf and hardy fig that is an excellent choice for patio culture as far north as zone 6. It is a dwarf fig tree that abundantly produces sweet strawberry colored medium sized fruit.

Little ruby can only be cultivated from cuttings and strikes quite easily. This video discusses the little ruby fig and how it can be styled to create a unique bonsai. Little ruby fig is a self pollinating variant. It produces an early strong breba crop on the previous year s shoot growth.

Developed by the same retired biologist who gave us the hardy and huge olympian fig denny mcgaughy he chose this seedling for its. Crassifolia green island fig. The video also discusses some unique attributes about little ruby figs that must be known to interested bonsai artists if they are to succeed with this species as a bonsai. Ficus benjamina weeping figs.

Ficus virens deciduous white fig. The little ruby fig is actually a sport of the port jackson fig which is a native fig to nsw australia. A cultivar of ficus rubiginosa port jackson fig was discovered in a batch of ficus rubiginosa seedlings. Little ruby is a slower growing fig with dark green narrow leaves.

A little ruby fig bonsai. The fruit of the fig tree is a great source of fiber and manganese. Ficus nerifolia willow leaf fig. Fig little ruby ficus carica suitable for containers or even bonsai fig little ruby has a natural dwarf habit with small tasty bite sized maroon colored fruit.

In this particular video we explore a design which can be seen in some indonesian bonsai.