Ficus nipponica Groundcover Shrubs ideal where vertical form is

ideal where vertical form is wanted in a small footprint

There is no tea and no seed oil to claim here

and trifoliate orange

so a single plant tucked into a border sets the whole group fruiting

an evergreen with smooth

Ficus nipponica Groundcover Shrubs ideal where vertical form isFicus nipponica is a handsome evergreen climbing fig from Japan and temperate East Asia, a self clinging vine that dresses walls, masonry, and tree trunks in glossy green the year round. Where the familiar creeping fig, Ficus pumila, carries small rounded leaves, this rarer relative bears larger, more pointed foliage and a somewhat tougher constitution. Botanists now file the plant under the sprawling Ficus sarmentosa complex, as Ficus sarmentosa var.