Ficus vaccinioides prophouse-fall-2026 and water beech all point

and water beech all point to this one tree

scattered and never common

The compact cultivar bears tiny

and unlike most of the tribe

Most bluestars are smooth

Ficus vaccinioides prophouse-fall-2026 and water beech all pointThe Latin gives away the joke before you have even seen the plant. Ficus vaccinioides, the Formosan creeping fig, is a fig that has decided to impersonate a blueberry: vaccinioides means resembling Vaccinium, and the small, glossy, obovate leaves running close along reddish stems really could pass for an evergreen huckleberry. They are no relation at all. They are a true fig, latex and all, just one that has shrunk to a few inches tall and given up