Ficus carica |
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common fig, edible fig, fiku, piku |
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Habit | Shrubs or small trees, deciduous, to 5 m. |
Roots | not adventitious. |
Bark | grayish, slightly roughened. |
Branchlets | pubescent. |
Leaves | 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. |
Ficus carica |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–summer. |
Habitat | Disturbed sites |
Elevation | 0-300 m (0-1000 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; FL; MA; NC; SC; Mexico; West Indies; native to Asia [Introduced in North America]
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Discussion | Ficus carica is known to escape in Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia, although no specific localities are documented. Ficus carica was first known from Caria in southwestern Asia. It is cultivated for its edible fruit and becomes established outside of cultivation only sporadically in the United States. It can sometimes be found persisting around old habitations and old orchards. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 3. |
Parent taxa | Moraceae > Ficus |
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Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 1059. (1753) |
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