I don't know if they are still sold as houseplants, but I remember the China Doll trees you used to be able to buy. People would plant them out in the yard and guess what -- they got a Chinaberry tree! Horrible trees.

Our mobile home community has these trees all over the place and each on is half-rotted. Along with all the 'Chinaberries' they drop, they tend to shed branches, large branches, throughout the year. It has been brought to the owner's attention through one of the managers, but the response was, "I like them, so they stay." Considering he lives in Pennsylvania with a seasonal home in the Villages, I am guessing that translates to, "I don't want to pay to remove them."
Still, I guess a couple nice things about the trees are:
1. Being half-rotted they make for great food sources and homes for local woodpeckers.

1. The fallen branches can be collected to use as bed borders.

Give it time, one day something will happen to make it split right in two, then he will have to take it out. We had one once - (when we were very young and ignorant and wanted a fast-growing tree.) It dropped the berries and they sprouted up all over the place, dropped leaves, twigs, branches, etc all year. But I have to admit, the structure of the tree itself was quite pleasing, a very Oriental, weeping, outward spreading effect. And the leaves were a beautiful healthy green that gave the pleasant feathery look to it. But then we got a very bad spell of violent storms and wind and it split right in two, and it was a HUGE tree by then. In fact half the tree landed on top of the fence and caused damage. Oh yeah, and every year it got covered with some kind of beetles.

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One of the most notable things about florida gardening is selecting the right plant for the location. i guess that's true in other zones but it sure is important here lol Those adorable little "house" plants that you knew up north become monsters I'm always amused at the interest "Ficus " trees draw and the methods on how to grow them Nobody EVER discusses how to stop them!! lol

My method would be stick it in the ground dash into the house and get your pruning shears or backhoe depending on the variety lol gary