I've been developing this Ficus burttdavyi (Veld fig) since Aug of 2019 and today I'm preparing it for it's first club show!

These trees are strangler Figs from Southern Africa and they put out a lot of aerial roots and are fast growers.
The species was named in honor of the botanist Joseph Burtt Davy, who worked in South Africa between 1903 and 1919.
He is commemorated in the genus name Burttdavya and in numerous specific epithets including Aloe davyana, Acacia davyi, Hibiscus burttdavyi and Ficus burttdavyi.
Ficus burttdavyi is typically a lax shrub occurring in coastal scrub or thicket, that becomes a robust creeper in inland forests and a small multistemmed ‘rock splitting’ shrub in the drier Karoo region.

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