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Its common name is weeping fig, and in these flayed skins the lamentation resonates.

A weeping fig tree looms above her head; across the loft-like room are three large windows adorned with house plants.

For example, growing in the ground in a tropical climate, branches of weeping fig, a familiar houseplant, will reach skyward and spread as high and wide as a sugar maple’s.

For a plant with many stems, such as a weeping fig, a few severe cuts usually gives better results than many small cuts.

“I didn’t know a ton about it when I bought it,” said Roth of the plant, also known as the weeping fig, that she brought home that day.