Indoor Plant! What on earth is it?
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Looks like a ficus benjamina.
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Agree, a ficus.
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Ficus are notoriously fussy about being moved to a new location. This link should help.
http://www.icangarden.com/document.cfm?task=viewdetail&itemid=2810
http://www.icangarden.com/document.cfm?task=viewdetail&itemid=2810
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Welcome Darko605. 
Unusual for me this is one of the few plants I can keep alive indoors, having had and grown them from cuttings for over 30 years.
They are temperamental and are best ignored almost completely. They need a warm preferably sunny position with no drafts and once you've found the right situation don't move it around. I found they are also best starved, water when you remember, perhaps a good soaking every two months or so and then forget them. I don't ever remember feeding mine even though they were in pots. They like their roots to be cramped so no need to pot on.
This one below was a third generation plant, almost 6ft tall. It stood in a north-west facing window that gave afternoon and evening sun and didn't mind the heat from the radiator in the winter months.
This little one I grew for my late mother and whilst still young she snapped the leading stem accidently. Looking like a Bonsai it didn't grow any taller over the years.
I no longer grow them but do miss having one about the house.
Unusual for me this is one of the few plants I can keep alive indoors, having had and grown them from cuttings for over 30 years.They are temperamental and are best ignored almost completely. They need a warm preferably sunny position with no drafts and once you've found the right situation don't move it around. I found they are also best starved, water when you remember, perhaps a good soaking every two months or so and then forget them. I don't ever remember feeding mine even though they were in pots. They like their roots to be cramped so no need to pot on.
This one below was a third generation plant, almost 6ft tall. It stood in a north-west facing window that gave afternoon and evening sun and didn't mind the heat from the radiator in the winter months.
This little one I grew for my late mother and whilst still young she snapped the leading stem accidently. Looking like a Bonsai it didn't grow any taller over the years.
I no longer grow them but do miss having one about the house.