Ficus trees are some of the most popular plants for growing indoors as houseplants.Keep reading to learn all about the best types of ficus trees and some of the most popular species for growing as houseplants.
The fiddle leaf fig might be the most popular type of ficus to grow indoors. These trees have lovely, slender, brown trunks and broad, glossy leaves that are shaped similarly to fiddles, growing broader at their bases and tips.
The creeping fig or climbing fig plant is a popular variety of ficus that grows natively in eastern Asia. As its common name suggests, this ficus is a vine with a creeping or climbing habit.
This species of ficus is native to southeast Asia. It features bright-green, rounded leaves and grows as a tree or hemiepiphytic shrub in its native climate.
Native to western Asia, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean, the common fig is the species of fig you are likely most familiar with because this species of ficus tree produces the fruits we all know as “figs.”
The red leaf fig is native to northeastern Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Papuasia where it grows in rainforests, often along streams and creek beds.