Ficus nitida

🌳 Ficus nitida – Indian laurel fig
 📏 Height: 5–10 m (up to 20 m in tropical climates)
 🌿 Oval, glossy, bright green, evergreen leaves
 🌳 Dense, expansive and rounded hair
 🌍 Origin
 🌏 Southeast Asia | Widely grown in: 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇺🇸 (California and Florida)
 📍 Ideal for
 🏞️ Tree-lined avenues, urban parks, tall hedges, windbreaks
 🌴 Perfect for creating dense shade and visual coverage
 🌼 Blooming
 📅 Non-ornamental | 🌸 Internal flowers with small fruits (syconia)
 🟡 Small yellow figs → inedible
 💧 Resistance
 🌞 Full sun or partial shade | 🌵 Drought: Good once mature
 ❄️ Frost: does not tolerate temperatures below 0 °C
 🪴 Well-drained soil, even poor
 🧰 Care
 ✂️ Tolerates heavy pruning | 🌱 Rapid and vigorous growth
 🌬 It resists wind, heat and urban pollution well
 ⚠️ Strong root system: don't plant it too close to sidewalks or pipes