Scientific Name: Ficus carica
Common Name: common fig, garden fig
Family Name: Moraceae
Origin: S.E. Asia / Japan / China
Hardiness Zone: Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C)
Plant Type: Shrub - deciduous
Mature Size: 2 - 3m x 3 - 4m (height x width)
Habit: Upright
Form: Round
Texture: Very coarse
Landscape Uses: Specimen plant, Urban agriculture
Exposure: Full sun
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Lobed, Alternate, Leathery, Palmate venation, Glabrous, Lustrous, Ovate, Palmately lobed
Flowers: Flowers clustered, Green, Pink, Red, May-Jun
Fruit: Drupe, Multiple fruit, (Accessory tissue), Green, Purple, Brown, Aug-Sep
Key ID Features:
Leaves dark green, ovate 12-25cm x 10-18cm wide, with 3 or 5 lobes; florets enclosed in hollow stem; fruit obovate, mostly 4-7cm long, green, ripening to purplish-brown (syconium).