This fig tree has a large grayish buttressed trunk and weeping branchlets that are supported by aerial roots and forms a broad rounded crown. It has glossy green elliptical leaves and the reddish figs appear in summer or throughout the year in tropical regions.

Hardiness zones 10 to 12

Ficus benjamina is naturally found from east Asia to the Malaysian islands and extending to tropical and sub-tropical forests in Australia. 

It grows in well drained deep organic rich fertile moist soils in an open semi shaded to sunny position and is frost and drought tender.
 
The Weeping Fig is grown for its foliage and habit. It is planted in large gardens or parks as a shade tree or used for a tropical effect. It is also used as an indoor plant when young, establishing in 3 to 4 years and is long lived. It may also be espaliated against a wall or trained as a standard and used as a bonsai specimen. It is moderately deer resistant. ID 463

Ficus (FEE-kus) benjamina (ben-ja-MEEN-a)

'Ficus': Latin name for the fig; 'bejamina': refers to the sap, which resembles the benjamin-resin of Styrax benjamina.

Moraceae (mor-AY-see-ee)
Figs and Mulberries