Edible fig
Ficus carica
Edible fig,Common fig,Higo,Fig
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Description
Shrubs or small trees, deciduous, to 5 m. Roots not adventitious. Bark grayish, slightly roughened. Branchlets pubescent. Leaves: stipules 1-1.2 cm; petiole 8-20 cm. Leaf blade obovate, nearly orbiculate, or ovate, palmately 3-5-lobed, 15-30 × 15-30 cm, base cordate, margins undulate or irregularly dentate, apex acute to obtuse; surfaces abaxially and adaxially scabrous-pubescent; basal veins 5 pairs; lateral veins irregularly spaced. Syconia solitary, sessile, green, yellow, or red-purple, pyriform, 5-8 cm, pubescent; peduncle ca. 1 cm; subtending bracts ovate, 1-2 mm; ostiole with 3 subtending bracts, umbonate.
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Characteristics
Bloom Time
Spring
Plant Type
Shrub, Tree, Edible
Lifespan
Perennial, Woody
Flower
The flower is not visible as it blooms inside the fruit.
Fruit
The infructescence is a ripened receptacle (syconium), not an ovary, that forms in late summer or fall on new wood. It is 2-4 in. long and may be a number of colors depending on the cultivar. Fruits develop without the need for cross pollinaton.
How to Grow
Water
Mesic, Dry Mesic
Sunlight
Full Sun, Full sun (6 or more hours of direct sunlight a day), Partial Shade (Direct sunlight only part of the day, 2-6 hours)
Benefits
Attracts
Birds
Songbirds