Yes

Yes, it is a fiddle leaf fig and they do come in multi-stemmed forms as well as a single trunk. Same plant - different look.

Thank you both. I wanted to take a cutting from this one (its in a conference room in my office) but don't really want a plant that has this growing habit!

A single stem cutting will almost always result in a single stemmed plant.

....... would love confirmation if this is a fiddle leaf fig plant? It is. Are there different varieties of them? There are. F lyrata 'Compacta', F lyrata 'Bambino', and F lyrata 'Little Fiddle', are all cultivars of this plant. Often folks get inventive and pull names out of the sky and use them as descriptors; so often, more than 1 name gets hung on a cultivar.

i ask because it’s growth pattern looks different than the single
trunk ones I’ve seen. To the greatest degree, the grower determines the growth habit of the plant, and how you prune plays the largest role ...... along with how many plants are in the same pot. It's still very possible to arrange and prune multiple plants so the end composition has the appearance of a single tree.

This [my tree] looks like there are several trunks growing
right from the base. They look too close together to have been planted
that way - looks like it’s growing from the base instead of branching
further up? I agree it's much too busy, but that can be fixed by thinning the number of trunks or simply snipping them off below the soil line. FWIW, in the sense that all extension occurs from an area at the tip of each branch or stem, we know the plant isn't actually growing from the base. We can force new shoots to appear low on the plant, but then 'the base' would be their attachment point. Too, in trees that are apically dominant, as most if not all plants in the mulberry family are (that's the family Ficus belongs to), genetic programming predisposes the plants to extend upward to a much greater degree than they produce new lateral growth. Fortunately, you can counter this tendency for the tree to expend 2/3 of the energy (food) it makes in the upper 1/3 of the canopy via a little judicious and well-timed pruning.

Al

Are ‘Compacta’, ‘Bambino’ and ‘Little Fiddle’ three different names for the one same (smaller leaved) cultivar?

...... beyond the limits of my knowledge, but at a minimum, they are all 3 strikingly similar ..... and their cultural wants would be the same as the species counterpart.

Al

Al - that is a beautiful bonsai - is that one of yours?

Yes, but not long ago, I had 5 of my best trees stolen after I'd readied them for a bonsai talk/demonstration I was giving for a garden club - that was one of the trees I lost. Also taken was another J maple in the mother/daughter style (the larger 'mother' tree overhangs the subordinate 'daughter' tree) and 3 other highly refined trees. All were older trees I've worked on for 20-25 years. I was sick ..... still am.

Al

Oh my - I wonder if the person that stole them understood the amount of time and effort spent on getting them to that point. I could never dare to do it for the bad karma!