How To Use Ficus In A Sentence
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Six months ago, Gary hired a goateed designer to "defoliate" the office, trucking out all the ficus trees and spanish moss to make room for curved sheets of fiberglass and, as he called it, "negative space.
Overboard
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Being a duke or a count, or holding other royally conferred titles such as vir inluster (in France) or vir magnificus (in Italy), were important privileges.
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Then they came to the taller plants: four-foot-tall ficus trees, false aralias, and dieffenbachia.
The Owl and Moon Cafe
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The ficus would thrive during the warm months on the patio in filtered morning sun, but I suspect summer afternoon sun would be too intense.
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Studies conducted by the National Coffee Research Center in 2004 found 96 bird species in the Kachalu farm region, a population that the center attributes to the wide variety of native trees that shade the coffee including ingas, eritrynas, cedars, ficus, albizzias and tubebuias, among others.
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For the less adventurous, there is a selection of low-maintenance houseplants such as ficus and pothos.
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Consider reworking the roots and continuing to grow the ficus in pots.
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Over in a corner, at the entrance to the recreation center, is a small grove of banana and ficus trees.
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Once there's new growth, prune to shape the ficus.
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In the state of Michoacán, the species more commonly present are Ficus mexicana, F. padifolia, Brosimum alicastrum, Licania arborea, Sideroxylon capiri and Enterolobium cyclocarpum.
Southern Pacific dry forests
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ALL my trees including my three foot tall tropical ficus are in either Japanese brown mud pots or Chinese red clay.
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Your father can't see us beyond those firs, where the canal slows to a standstill into a pool of grace: that would be the end of illusion, of pretense, the fire-retardant curtains opening to reveal the patio and its ficus.
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For example, the ever-popular weeping fig (Ficus Benjamina) was better than many of its peers against octane and alpha-pinene.
Which houseplants are best for better air quality?
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Common houseplants like chrysanthemums and ferns add oxygen and filter out harmful particles, while aloe vera, philodendron, pothos, spider plants, and ficus reduce toxic chemicals like formaldehyde.
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Slim, arboreal columns and roof beams allude to the ficus trees that run along the western boundary of the site.
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At least eleven threatened bird species (IUCN categories VU and above) occur in the ecoregion, and two others may be present, but their distributions are poorly known (brown-banded rail [Lewinia mirificus] and Luzon buttonquail [Turnix worcesteri]).
Luzon montane rain forests
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Shady conditions at ground level favor woody climbers that include strangler figs (Ficus spp.) and the cablelike Gnetum, an unusual climbing gymnosperm.
Kayah-Karen montane rain forests
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The trunks of the trees are everywhere concealed under a thick carpet of verdure; and if we carefully transplanted the orchideae, the pipers, and the pothoses, nourished by a single courbaril, or American fig-tree, * (* Ficus nymphaeifolia.) we should cover a vast extent of ground.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1
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The ficus we grow indoors are members of the fig family and capable of fruiting.
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For instance, in the International Airport area, trees such as neem, tamarind, casuarina and ficus, which absorb sound extremely well, are recommended.
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Both islands and banks are covered with forest, and most of the trees on the brink of the water send down roots from their branches like the banian, or ‘Ficus Indica’.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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The fruit pulp of O. ficus-indica originates from the funicle, which connects the seed to the ovary, indicating that fruit development depends on the presence of seeds.
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Other common tree species include Calophyllum inophyllum, Pandanus tectorius, Hernandia nymphaeifolia, Ficus tinctoria, Guettarda speciosa, the shrubs Suriana maritime, and Pemphis acidula, the fern Asplenium nidus, and the vine Ipomoea tuba.
Western Polynesian tropical moist forests
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North American populations of Hypomesus transpacificus, a congener of H. pretiosus, spend the entire life-cycle in freshwater.
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Slightly smaller, but no less vigorous is Ficus benjamina, the weeping fig which is often used as a bonsai because it responds so well to pruning.
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Edgar had (being but a Saxon) and by sundry such meanes, as he chiefly in this Empire did put in proofe and vse triumphantly, whereupon his sirname was Pacificus, most aptly and iustly.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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For instance, in the International Airport area, trees such as neem, tamarind, casuarina and ficus, which absorb sound extremely well, are recommended.
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And I don't mean a ficus in a pot by someone's swimming pool.
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Pransus sum Streathamiae agninum crus coctum cum herbis (spinach) comminutis, farcimen farinaceum cum uvis passis, lumbos bovillos, et pullum gallinae: Turcicae; et post carnes missas, ficus, uvas, non admodum maturas, ita voluit anni intemperies, cum malis Persicis, iis tamen duris.
Life Of Johnson
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The nopal (or prickly pear) cactus, Opuntia ficus-indica, is native to the United States and grown widely on the African continent, Mexico and other developing countries.
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What was strange about the tall overweight man was his fixation with the ficus.
HAVANA BEST FRIENDS
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For instance, in the International Airport area, trees such as neem, tamarind, casuarina and ficus, which absorb sound extremely well, are recommended.
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Six months ago, Gary hired a goateed designer to "defoliate" the office, trucking out all the ficus trees and spanish moss to make room for curved sheets of fiberglass and, as he called it, "negative space.
Overboard
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Later that night while I was watering the ficus, Mic finally phoned.
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Chimpanzee wadge of ficus fruit fig in Nyungwe Forest, Rwanda
Mountain Gorillas: Discovery Channel: April 2008
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Aloe vera, chrysanthemums, ferns, ficus, philodendron, pothos, and spider plants are considered particularly good air filters, drawing pollutants out of the air and replacing them with fresh oxygen.
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Water movement and diel cycles of internal water distribution between water-storage hydrenchyma and photosynthetic chlorenchyma has also been demonstrated for A. deserti, Ferocactus acanthodes and Opuntia ficus-indica.
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Ligustrum, Ficus frutex humelis, and a fine Indigofera occur.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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At least now my ficus is looking very handsome in his glazed ceramic pot, and with a bit of rearranging all my books are on shelves, somehow.
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It includes Albizia carbonaria, Calophyllum brasiliense var. rekoi, Inga, Cecropia, Ficus and Lonchocarpus spp., balsa Ochroma lagopus, Luehea seemannii, Pachira aquatica and Heliconia.
Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras
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Clerodendrum nutans, Ficus feruginea and F. hispida, foliis cordatis, serrato-dentatis: then Saurauja micrantha; before 2,300 feet were reached.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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Maledicat illum cuneus martyrum et confessorum mirificus, qui Deo bonis operibus placitus inventus est. os
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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To my left was the big pine shading that store, and just to my right was another huge evergreen tree, a Ficus retusa, the Indian Laurel Fig.
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Vibrio vulnificus is a bacterium in the same family as those that cause cholera.
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The local source can be divided into two categories: species that are characteristic of lowland rain forest, such as Dipterocarpaceae, Bombacaceae, and the genus Ficus (figs), and those that have a large global latitudinal distribution such as pines, Cruciferae (e.g., mustard), Theaceae (e.g., tea), and tree ferns.
Sumatran montane rain forests
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In view of the need to exploit saline water resources in agriculture in arid zones, we investigated the salt tolerance of Opuntia ficus-indica in plants growing in solution culture.
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Species diversity is very high and members of the Lauraceae and Moraceae such as Ficus spp. and Chlorophora spp., palms, Cedrela odorata and wild avocado Persea sp. occur.
Sangay National Park, Ecuador
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Already, the garden section along the side wall has been planted with striking specimens: croton, ixora, copa de oro, and an assortment of ficus trees.
Gringos in Paradise
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Spider plants and ivies are ideal for desks, and a large-leaved Ficus lyrata or Phoenix roebelinii will cheer up a bare corner.
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‘The dried flowers were my fault; I couldn't help it,’ she says as the camera shows a ficus on her car's roof.
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In the video, Bachmann is standing in front of a beige, synthetic-looking background the same material found on cubical walls and what we think is a ficus tree.
HUFFPOST HILL - Rick Perry Is The North Star Of Texas Lobbyists
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They sat by the ficus tree as the bourgeoisie — haute, middle, and low — of Matar ambulated past in the Muzak hush of the mall.
Florence of Arabia (Part II)
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Vegetation of the Telanca Plateau and central lowlands is a more open secondary forest, dominated by palms, such as Arenga pinnata, Caryota mitis and Arenga obtusifolia, which may occur in almost pure stands interspersed with taller canopy trees, such as Lagerstroemia flosreginae, Diospyros macrophylla, Vitex pubescens, Ficus sp., and Planchonia valida.
Ujung Kulon National Park and Krakatau Nature Reserve, Indonesia
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Along the shore are ceiba and banana and ficus, and bright emerald clusters of sea lettuce (Chlorophyta), water hyacinth, giant mango trees, the fruit tree called poponjoche, and the bright-blossomed national flower, the Sacuanjocheink.
Richard Bangs: Nic' of Time
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The exhibition includes a South African ficus, a tamarind with pods, elephant grass from Africa, cherry, bougainvillaea, fig, Accacia and trees collected from forests.
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Experiments reported herein focused on cladodes of O. ficusindica and stem segments of O. parryi var. parryi (cylindropuntia).
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Flores apparuerunt in terra nostra; tempus putationis advenit: vox turturis audita est in terra nostra; ficus protulit grossos suos; vineæ florentes dederunt odorem suum.
RORATE CÆLI
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Now the hunt for more soaring specimens of kapok, wild ficus, Dead Man's Tree, and gnarled kenip continues, as efforts to save the trees gain steam.
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In the lower mountain areas, wadi species include Zizyphus spina-christi, Prosopis cineraria, Acacia tortilis and some fig species, especially Ficus salicifolia.
Al Hajar Al Gharbi montane woodlands
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The larval insects insert their proboscides into the bark of young shoots of certain lac-bearing trees, varieties of Ficus, draw out the sap for nutriment, and at once exude a resinous secretion which entirely covers their bodies and the twigs, often to the thickness of one-half inch.
Handwork in Wood
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A strangler fig (Ficus citrifolia) photographed in Kalimantan, Borneo.
Biological diversity in Sundaland
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Other products used are sisal and ficus leaves, as well as discarded cotton, usually from worn cotton sheets from hospitals.
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Cliff and ravine vegetation is often very diverse and dense; the chasmophytic flora includes Cissus quadrangularis, Ficus lecardii, Boscia angustifolia, Euphorbia sudanica, Lannea microcarpa and Combretum lecardii.
Cliffs of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons), Mali
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Emergent species like the strangler fig (Ficus dugandii) may reach heights of over 60 m while very abundant epiphytes such as Araceae sp and Cyclanthaceae sp. cover the lower parts of tree trunks and ferns help make up the dense understory.
Western Ecuador moist forests
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The western blacklegged tick Ixodes pacificus can also carry the bacterium that corresponds to Lyme disease.
News
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Marnie crouches behind a potted ficus in the corner.
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I think it's safe for the ficus to be in your bedroom or any room in the house.
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Tropical bonsai, such as serissa, ficus, or bougainvillea can not adapt to freezing temperature and must be protected against frost.
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The humid valleys and guelta banks have Sudanian riverine vegetation: Tamarix gallica, and some Ficus sycomorus, Acacia nilotica, Salvadora persica and Hyphaene thebaica.
Tassili N'Ajjer National Park, Algeria
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Over in a corner, at the entrance to the recreation center, is a small grove of banana and ficus trees.
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Objective: The method of rapid identification and isolation of Vibrio vulnificus in aquatic products was studied.
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For example, the ever-popular weeping fig Ficus Benjamina was better than many of its peers against octane and alpha-pinene.
Which houseplants are best for better air quality?
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The Ficus Indica tree, under which we now sat, had very large leaves, but showed its relationship to the Indian banian by sending down shoots toward the ground.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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Olea europea, Cerotonia siliqua, Pistacia palestina, Ficus, and Laurel are all very important species in the local human culture.
Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests
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For instance, in the International Airport area, trees such as neem, tamarind, casuarina and ficus, which absorb sound extremely well, are recommended.
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Ne fit inter vos qui filium fuum aut iiliam igne com - burat, qui fortilegia exerceat, aftrologus, augur, ve - neficus, II. ferpentum conjurator, eonfulens py - thones, fatidicus, necromantes.
Pentateuchus ex recensione textus hebraei et versionum antiquarum latine versus notisque philologicis [microform]
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The Saharomontane vegetation of the higher elevations supports the endemic Ficus teloukat, which grows on the south and southwestern slopes, Myrtus nivellei and Nerium oleander on the western slopes, and Tamarix ` gallica nilotica and Nerium oleander on the wetter northern slopes.
Tibesti-Jebel Uweinat montane xeric woodlands
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For true plant aficionados, grow a small tree, such as a ficus, on your deck.
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Here are all of the Latin words that could conceivably be translated into English as "kind": pius, lenis, genus, comis, benignus, benignitas, beneficus, et almus.
At What Level did this Evolve?
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In its natural habitat tun is found growing in mixed stands comprising other broad-level species like terminalias, albizzias, bombax, ficuses, shisham, acacias, etc.
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Some fine timber trees exist on the road to the village, and a very large Ficus: no particular plants occur except a Chloranthus, fructibus albis, which is also common towards Palampan.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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Ficus trees, with numerous tangled root shoots and tall, dense crowns, were signature trees of the islands, well known as the favorite haunt of jumbies.
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The philodendrons, the ficus, and the Swedish ivy in their terra-cotta planters had wilted.
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Sudanese species include the trees Acacia nilotica, Grewia tenax, Grewia villosa, Cordia sinensis, Tamarix gallica and several species of Ficus.
Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, Niger
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Later Ivo found in a botanical encyclopedia that another name of the ficus was ‘the plant-killer’, because wild ficuses, growing around a tree, are able to take all of its soil energy and finally kill it.
