A friend from church had a huge brown turkey fig tree that was always ... as an evergreen ornamental tree in Florida, although it is grown commercially for its fruit in Mediterranean climates.

In fact, a fig is not a fruit, but is actually the stem ... leaving the shorter branches. Although fig trees are generally hardy in North Florida, occasional cold snaps can cause damage.

This edible fig is widely grown for its fruit and is commercially ... to the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. The fig tree's deciduous leaves are palmate ...

Even if a red delicious tree would grow here, it would never produce fruit. In Central Florida, we have four ... Chinese date, fig, bunch grape, muscadine grape, peaches and nectarines, pecan ...

Fig trees are one of the easiest fruit trees to grow. Not only can handle extreme heat and drought conditions without affecting fruit quality, but the fruit develops without pollination.

These wild native fig trees produce tremendous amounts ... Indigenous peoples and early settlers in Florida relied on the edible fruit of ficus aurea, which also was used to make a rose-colored ...

A: Usually, if a tree (or other fruit-bearing plant) produces fruit that is deformed, small, or fails to develop, pollination is the problem. For figs, pollination is a bit tricky because the ...

A: Check the amount of water your figs are getting. Most figs should be watered twice a week right now. Fruit trees should not be short on water while they’re producing fruit. We are quickly ...

I never did get fruit from that first fig tree, but thanks to what I’ve learned from my research and work, I still grow them here in the slightly less frigid winters of the Hudson Valley of New ...