Monthly Progress # 26

Here is the handsome young F. religiosa in mid June when the heat is getting intense under the sub tropical sun of Miami. Surrounded now by the newly planted cicads, the ficus' new growths appeared to form new branches and the tree has more than doubled in size since first planted at this location. Today, a family of tiny tree frogs made its temporary refuge from the hot sun on the sacred leaves of the ficus. I spotted at least a dozen, some as small as a peanut and the largest the size of an almond, presumably the mother.