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A real 'glow' of a photo, very 'warming' on this cold Saturday morning 
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My observations lead me to believe that, unlike most plant material, fig species don't seem to be heliotropic. Does this mean that we don't need to turn them to get even growth?
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Stymie (07/11/2009)
My observations lead me to believe that, unlike most plant material, fig species don't seem to be heliotropic. Does this mean that we don't need to turn them to get even growth?
Don asked the same question elsewhere. For the benefit of anyone else who's interested, this was my answer:
As a general rule of thumb, plants that naturally grow in habitats where they are overshadowed by taller trees display little or no heliotropism.
The tropical figs, being smallish trees and shrubs, fall into this category. If plants growing in shady places were subject to the same heliotropic pressure as sun-loving plants, they would waste a lot of energy through etoliation (growing tall and spindly in an effort to reach direct sunlight).
Instead, plants adapted to growing in such places put their energy into growing leaves with more pigmentation, in order to extract every scrap of energy from the weak, ambient light they recieve. Hence why such plants tend to have very dark green leaves, whilst those that grow in full sun have paler, yellow-green leaves.
Shade-growing plants also tend to hold their leaves at more widely varied angles, to intercept dispersed light from all angles, whilst sun-growing plants only really arrange their leaves to avoid their own shade, but largely hold them directly facing the sun.
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