Category: Fruits

It seems every animal in this small reserve is converging on an enormous fig tree. I have been watching this tree for weeks, and now its entire burden of fruit – between 400,000 and 600,000 figs – is ripening all at once. The bounty attracts birds and mammals from all directions to partake in a […]

Fig trees attract wildlife that can eat your harvest or damage your plants. Birds love to eat the fruit, and gophers will feast on fig tree roots, which can easily destroy a large plant. The good news is that deer generally are not interested in figs. What do figs attract? When the female flowers inside […]

In addition to human uses, shoots and leaves of fig trees are used for animal fodder, which can sustain livestock through otherwise lean periods. In addition to being a food source, the bark and roots from fig trees are used for manufacturing items such as barkcloth, handicrafts, shields and buildings. What is the purpose of […]

Figs are not actually fruits but a mass of inverted flowers and seeds that are pollinated by a species of tiny symbiotic wasps. The male fig flower is the only place where the female wasp can lay her eggs, at the bottom of a narrow opening in the fruit that she shimmies her way through. […]

One of the reasons weak fiddle leaf fig tree trunks happen is because the trunk fails to develop into the thick, strong, supportive, and nourishing pillar it’s meant to be. Occasionally, fiddle leaf fig trees do grow tall but still fail to stand on their own. How do I make my fiddle leaf fig trunk […]

It is believed that by *gently* shaking the trunk of your fiddle, you are simulating the wind in its natural environment and encouraging it to grow stronger to withstand these forces. Your fiddle will in turn thicken its trunk and strengthen its root system. Should you shake fiddle leaf fig? Richard says: ‘Fiddle leaf figs […]

Moreover, figs can cause allergic reactions in subjects sensitized to FB allergens independent of sensitization to rubber latex allergens. The FB allergen is airborne and the sensitization occurs through inhalation. Can you be allergic to a fig tree? Furocoumarins in sap of fig tree are the main cause of its irritability when come in contact […]

Characteristics and Pruning The fig tree is treated as a shaped tree when trained against a facade. Fig trees grow to 3 – 5 meters. Flowering and pollination are complicated; self-fertile cultivars are therefore recommended. 1 to 2 harvests per year, the main one in July / August. What does a fig looks like? Figs […]

Figs may have a single stemmed tree like growth or multi-stemmed shrub-like growth and often send up suckers from the base of the tree and spreading branches that are low to the ground. How do you keep a fig tree small? Figs can be kept small by pruning them as shrubs, allowing them to be […]

The fig plant is a bush or small tree, from 1 metre (3 feet) to 10 to 12 metres (33 to 39 feet) high, with broad, rough, deciduous leaves that are deeply lobed or sometimes nearly entire. The leaves and stems exude a white latex when broken. What is a fig tree called? Ficus (/ˈfaɪkəs/ […]