edible fig USDA PLANTS Symbol: FICA
U.S. Nativity: Exotic
Habit: Hardwood Trees Shrub or Subshrub
Ficus carica L.

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Taxonomic Rank: Magnoliopsida: Urticales: Moraceae
Synonym(s): common fig, fiku, piku
Native Range: Western Asia (REHD); Medit. Reg. (BAIL);

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Fruit(s); Panachée, an unusual yellow-and-green-striped fig at the ARS National Clonal Germplasm Repository.
David Karp, , Bugwood.org
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Fruit(s); Preserved at the National Clonal Germplasm Repository, Violette de Bordeaux figs taste and smell to some like raspberry jam.
David Karp, , Bugwood.org
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Fruit(s); Black Mission figs, one of the most important fig varieties, are shown here packed for the fresh market at DeBenedetto Farms in California's southwestern Central Valley.
David Karp, , Bugwood.org
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EDDMapS Distribution:
This map is incomplete and is based only on current site and county level reports made by experts and records obtained from USDA Plants Database. For more information, visit www.eddmaps.org
 


State(s) Where Reported invasive.
Based on state level agency and organization lists of invasive plants from WeedUS database.

Native Alternatives:
Calycanthus floridus (eastern sweetshrub)
Calycanthus occidentalis (western sweetshrub)
Clusia rosea (Scotch attorney)
Ribes aureum (golden currant)
Rubus parviflorus (thimbleberry)


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Invasive Listing Sources:
California Invasive Plant Council
Faith Campbell, 1998. Plants that Hog the Garden: Invasive Plants in the United States. Fine Gardening Online
John Randall, The Nature Conservancy, Survey of TNC Preserves, 1995.