Common fig seed

LATIN NAME: Ficus carica

COMMON NAME: Common Fig

The common fig is the sweet, secret fruit of the warm wall, and the round, green-to-purple fruits swell along the branch. The broad, spreading, deciduous tree or large shrub carries the large, deeply lobed leaves and the small, hidden flowers inside the developing fruits, which swell into the round to pear-shaped, green, yellow or purple fruits through the late summer, one of the fine, sweet sights of the warm wall. The fruits have a very long record as the sweet of the old world, and the tree is a fine, historic presence of the warm garden. It is a tree of the open, sunny, deep, well-drained ground.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The common fig is a historic subject of the plant science, and the hidden flowers keep showing up in the work on the fig group. The remarkable way the tree flowers inside the fruit and depends on the tiny fig wasps has been studied at length, and it keeps appearing in the studies of the fig-wasp mutualism, the old fruit trees and the members of the mulberry family. The large, deeply lobed leaves and the broad, spreading habit have also made it a fine study tree, and the common fig is a regular subject of the work on the sweet, secret trees of the warm world.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

The common fig is a fine, historic tree of the warm wall and the courtyard. The round to pear-shaped fruits swell into the fine, sweet, soft flesh through the late summer, eaten fresh from the tree, dried into the sweet figs of the old trade and pressed into the fig jams of the warm kitchens. The broad, lobed leaves give the fine, cool shade of the warm wall, and the tree is one of the fine choices for the warm garden, the courtyard, the pot and the wall-side planting. It has been written up in the culinary and the botanical papers for the sweet fruits and the fig-wasp story, and it is a fine, long-lived tree of the open, sunny, deep, well-drained garden.

In the cool gardens the fig does well against the warm, south-facing wall, where the wood ripens through the summer.

To grow the common fig from seed, sow the small, flat seeds across the surface of a pot of fine seed compost, pressing them in, keep the pot in a warm, bright spot and water gently, then set the young plants out after the last frosts. The seedlings come through within a couple of weeks and grow on steadily. With the sun, the warmth and the deep, well-drained ground, the sweet fruits will come in their own good time.

Common fig   Ficus carica