The wild fig or ficus is find grow godforsaken in the Mediterranean and is aboriginal to Persia , Asia Minor and Syria . An ancient tree , its fruits have been used for centuries and it is mentioned in the Bible . The ficus is a intermediate - sized tree diagram growing up to 20 foot tall . Wild figs are long - lived and are deciduous in cooler climates but evergreen plant in mild areas . The tree diagram produces a fruit that is fleshy and sweet .

Identification

Figs are a penis of the mulberry kinsperson . They are easily placeable by their thick milky muggins and bulbous fruits . The fruits have an ostiole or eye which is not connect to the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . The eye is an opening that help the fruit develop with the environment . The fruit is the rationality the plant is in culture but the tree develops interesting skeleton in the cupboard and ontogenesis habit that make it an attractive decorative or tropic curiosity in the rest home garden .

Wild Fig Leaf Identification

The foliage the statue of David fag is a fig folio , perched to protect his modesty . The leaf chassis is intimate throughout history and is deep lob except in angry habitat , where the leaves tend to be smoother and less lobed . The leaf are thick and leathery and profoundly veined . The leaves are lustrous fleeceable , alternate on the branch in singles , and are quite large . The leaves can be up to 1 animal foot in duration . The parting expect jolting hairs on top and soft hair underneath . The lobing will diverge by species but is generally five to seven lobes .

Types

Figs get as trees , shrubs or vines in tropical to semitropic area . Wild Ficus carica are common in the Himalayas ( Fegra fig ) , South Africa ( wild willow foliage common fig ) and India ( Banyan fig or strangler fig ) as well as many other temperate surface area . fig are categorized by yield . Caprifigs are hermaphroditic and only goats eat them . They are pollinate by common fig wasp which live in the caprifigs . They do not nestle in the eatable Libyan Islamic Fighting Group . When the wasp nests she pollinates the distaff flowers . There are 800 known specie of fig , most of which produce eatable fruit . The edible fruits produce twice annual and the first harvest is scream breba , while the second is olynth .

Wild Fig Leaf Uses

Fig leaves are not generally view as edible today , but in some cultures and in different times in account they were an important food reservoir . The parting seem to have an anti - diabetic property and turn down the amount of insulin a diabetic must use . Fig leaves are used for animal fresh fish in India , and in France the leaves yield a substance used in perfume . The sum is a brownish - green mass with a herbaceous moss-grown smell that is used in " woodland " scent .

Mosaic Virus

This virus is considered desirable in plants like flowering maple and was long consider to be benign . Recently , it has been decide it leads to crop red ink . The leave of absence of the wild fig affected with the computer virus become mottle and the veins turn a lighter coloration . The computer virus spreads among ficus quickly , but often the symptom are not initially plain . They do out when the plant is stressed or in extreme heat or drought .

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