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[Content] On Apr 29, 2008, cosmiccat from Fullerton, CA wrote: We bought a house 3yrs ago with the side brick wall shared with my neighbor completely covered in it. It seems like the original owners planted it 20yrs ago when they moved in and never attempted to control it. It has gone through little cracks in the wall over to my neighbors, climbed over and down his side of the wall and extended itself an additional 2ft up in places to make the privacy between us, well, more private. I had thought that there were two plants in there, as the mature leaves are broader and the branches produce figs. This is obviously not the case. And I believe it's currently flowering. As for the poster that asked about the plant living although he had cut it from the trunk/root (and I know this is late), the plant self roots. I believe... read more it has rooted itself in our neighbor's side of the yard. On several occasions in our attempt to remove some of the fig, we've found that it's rooted itself to another location in the dirt. We've actually severed it in several places and it's only killed a few of the many branches. It's likely rooted itself in some poor crevice within the tree. My husband did the backbreaking work on (hopefully) removing it from one of our backyard hard-scaped planters, leaving the rest of the fig for the "privacy". We'll see if it pops back up. And yes, he wasn't able to remove all of the thick root system as we were afraid it was going to break a pipe. He spent a whole weekend removing the roots/plant from a 5ft by 10inch planter, using a pickax, ax, loppers, etc. I'm going to be watching carefully to see if it grows back. And yes, it's suckered up paint from our fences as well. Added 6.13.10 I just wanted to add that this past early spring we decided to try to unblock the landscape drains on the side and back of the house, as the rains we had in So.Cal. were a bit concerning and it looked like it was going to flood our side yard. We rented an industrial rooter from our local mega hardware store. This plant had broken through the piping section that is approx. 10" underground and extended it's roots through the pipe blocking all water flow. When we were able to finally pull out the roots, which came out in one piece, it was (I kid you not) over 10 FEET in length. This plant will not die no matter how hard I try to kill it. [Rating] 
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