Creeping Fig aka Creeping Death

[KeroKero]

What's funny is this is also why I'd never want Ivy in a viv, or on a building for that matter... it can also take a building apart! Most of these really aggressive vines people use to "cover" a surface will do that. I grow some of it still but I only let it grow up tank furniture like driftwood - and then only in decently large tanks.

Back to the original film canister issue, people don't realize that the semi-aquatic mosses and the liverworts will do this too. Actually... anything into the film canister will do it. This is why lower humidity can help, less aerial roots running around to invade your film canisters and bromeliads...

[pdfCrazy]

Its funny, I had the HARDEST time finding any oak leaf ficus. To the point that I gave up, and gave into to purchasing a couple 3" pots of regular ficus pumila (creeping). I hadnt gottent my large Exo Terra quite ready to plant the ficus (the last plant to go in), but the ficus was outgrowing their small 3 inch pots in a matter of 3 weeks, so I put the two of them in a 12 inch hanging basket in my bedroom window to await their planting. They've only been in their about a month, and have added almost a foot of growth. NO WAY is that going in my Exo Terra. On the flip side, I got some oak leaf about a week after the regular, it was about 1-1/2 inches long when I got it, and its only about 2-1/2 now. It was growing so slowly, that I had to mount it just inches from the T5 lights, now its starting to grow a little. I'll stick to the oak leaf. The regular is staying in a hanging pot, not in my vivs.

[ICS523]

does anyone have any experiences with ficus pumilia var. minima mine grows pretty slowly , I have some and it has only covered about half a piece of small driftwood in 5 months, is this consistent with other peoples plants. if it is i would recomend it to peoplle who whant creeping fig but not the horrible wave of death and destruction that it brings! i never knew how awful that stuff was!

[claymore]

Is pumilia var. minima similar in leaf shape as regular pumilia?

I never run into any other varieties of Pumilia, sucks.

[goof901]

i believe var. minima is oak leaf creeping fig

[fieldnstream]

Originally Posted by goof901

i believe var. minima is oak leaf creeping fig

Oakleaf is "var. quercifolia"...minima is just a small-leaved variety

[KeroKero]

One of these days I swear I'm going to collect the whole damn set just to figure out how to tell them apart LOL. I don't think I've ever actually had the minima in hand, but oak leaf is tiny too... but it's shape gives it away. I'd love to see it climb and get some larger leaves with that shape!

[fieldnstream]

Hey Corey,
Check out some of the growth in Stu and Shaz's thread...pay special attention to the background of one of the pics of the summersi viv:
Da dart room.....the slow thread!!!
There are other pics that show a solid wall of oakleaf, just can't find them right now. Amazing growth in some of the tanks.

[ICS523]

pumilia var. minima has got the exact same leaves as the regular, exept they only get about 1/2 an inch long. it grows fast... but not too fast, at least for me.

[claymore]

I think i'll stay with the Oak leaf variety. If any of the Pumilia family.