Do You Know What Kind Of Tree This Is?

[bikerlou47]

Appreciate it!

[doggie888888]

Some type of strangler fig?

[danbradster]

It looks a bit like a severely pruned fig tree. Below is a weeping fig.

[drtreelove]

Ficus microcarpa?

[mitmig]

Looks like a banyan tree to me (Ficus Urostigma).

Edited May 28, 2011 by mitmig

[drtreelove]

Looks like a banyan tree to me (Ficus Urostigma).

I'm a tree maintenance specialist, not a taxonomist, and I usually don't get into discussions on identificattion; I had to look that one up and learned something. you scientists and Ficus aficionados please correct me if I'm wrong.

Urostigma apparently is a sub-genus of Ficus, and includes several species with heavy aerial roots, some called strangler figs and banyans. The most common of these in northern Thailand from what I've seen is Ficus benjamina (weeping Chinese banyan) a common house-plant in the US. Aerial roots are not so prolific as with some other species. Ficus altissima, a strangler fig is also common, and there is a large and famous one on Chiang Mai's Doi Suthep, on the trail up behind the Wat and the NP headquarters.

Ficus benghalensis is the common banyan of India (and Hawaii). The most famous and the largest that I've seen is in Bengal, just outside of Calcutta. It covered about an acre in the early 70s when I saw it, the original trunk is long gone and the aerial roots have become multiple trunks and pillar supports for the extensive lateral branching. There is another famous banyan in Lahaina on Maui, Hawaii, and many large ones in Hilo on the big island. The leaves are larger than what appears in the OP and Danbradster's photos.

Ficus elasitca, the house plant known as 'rubber plant' has a big leaf, and the mature trees get very large and have heavy aerial rooting.

Ficus microcarpa is the small leaf Chinese banyan that is common as the famous Hong Kong island "wall trees". (Along with F. virens) And that's what I think danbradster is showing and maybe the OP as well. There are some in Thailand, but it's not so common.

[bikerlou47]

Looks like a banyan tree to me (Ficus Urostigma).

I'm a tree maintenance specialist, not a taxonomist, and I usually don't get into discussions on identificattion; I had to look that one up and learned something. you scientists and Ficus aficionados please correct me if I'm wrong.

Urostigma apparently is a sub-genus of Ficus, and includes several species with heavy aerial roots, some called strangler figs and banyans. The most common of these in northern Thailand from what I've seen is Ficus benjamina (weeping Chinese banyan) a common house-plant in the US. Aerial roots are not so prolific as with some other species. Ficus altissima, a strangler fig is also common, and there is a large and famous one on Chiang Mai's Doi Suthep, on the trail up behind the Wat and the NP headquarters.

Ficus benghalensis is the common banyan of India (and Hawaii). The most famous and the largest that I've seen is in Bengal, just outside of Calcutta. It covered about an acre in the early 70s when I saw it, the original trunk is long gone and the aerial roots have become multiple trunks and pillar supports for the extensive lateral branching. There is another famous banyan in Lahaina on Maui, Hawaii, and many large ones in Hilo on the big island. The leaves are larger than what appears in the OP and Danbradster's photos.

Ficus elasitca, the house plant known as 'rubber plant' has a big leaf, and the mature trees get very large and have heavy aerial rooting.

Ficus microcarpa is the small leaf Chinese banyan that is common as the famous Hong Kong island "wall trees". (Along with F. virens) And that's what I think danbradster is showing and maybe the OP as well. There are some in Thailand, but it's not so common.

[bikerlou47]

Thank you so much I am going with a strangler fig

[drtreelove]

Thank you so much I am going with a strangler fig

That would not be wrong as a general term, but to be more specific or to acquire one for your (large) garden, go with Chinese banyan (F. microcarpa). I'm pretty sure that's what you have.

Where is the one pictured located?