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Leafs definitely look like a fig. Almost a cross between a fiddle leaf and a ficus benjamina (typical ficus) Both the fiddle leaf and the benjamina are in the ficus family so it's probably a ficus of some sort. Never seen that particular plant stores or where ever they sell house plants now. I used to work for basically a store/house plant warehouse many many years ago so I notice those things. Nice looking plant though.
I remember it used to drive me crazy when a designer would come in and a particular plant they saw in some magazine and point to the picture. I would show them what we carry, close, put not exactly the same. They would want me to get on phone to call all the nurseries in Florida to special order this plant, dig out botanical books first to identify exactly what it was from a photo, and try to bribe by saying I'll give you an extra $50 if you can make this happen next week, they just have to have it for a important client. Ah, no. You go ahead though I'll give you some phone numbers. I would just cringe when I saw some crazy designer walk into the store with a magazine in their hands.
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The foliage and trunk is too perfectly balanced and shows no natural physical flaws or signs of pruning and cultivation, there's not enough overall colour variations, the leaves (imitation silk??) are too uniform in shape and colour and WAY too transparent in the bright light, the base is the wrong size for a tree that size and spread - so I conclude it's not a real tree.
It looks to me more like the kind of light weight artificial trees that are so skillfully manufactured these days and mostly seen in big office building lobbies and shopping malls to give the impression of lush greenery. Some of them are so well made and convincing in appearance that the only sure-fire way to tell if they're the real thing is to handle and examine them closely.
I have to laugh. My DIL fell in love with a $150. fiddle leaf fig at a garden center, which proceeded to die after she brought it home. She babied this plant like crazy, but to no avail. As a last ditch effort to save it, my son took it back to the nursery in hopes they could save it. Last week we were there shopping for plants and my DIL went to visit the patient. It was in their dumpster.
I have to laugh. My DIL fell in love with a $150. fiddle leaf fig at a garden center, which proceeded to die after she brought it home. She babied this plant like crazy, but to no avail. As a last ditch effort to save it, my son took it back to the nursery in hopes they could save it. Last week we were there shopping for plants and my DIL went to visit the patient. It was in their dumpster.
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