Ficus carica Linnaeus

Cultivated Fig

(Life; Embryophyta (plants); Angiospermae (flowering plants); Eudicotyledons; Order: Rosales; Family: Moraceae; Genus: Ficus; Subgenus: Ficus; Section: Ficus; Subsection: Ficus)

Biology	Pollinator: Blastophaga psenes (Linnaeus).
Links	The Calimyrna fig and its pollinator wasp. Do we eat fig wasps when we consume cultivated figs?
Comments	Very closely related to Ficus palmata. The two species are probably conspecific.
Credits	Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums).
Next species	Ficus palmata Forsskål

Web authors Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

and Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA, France)