The fig fruit is green, purple or bluish in color and of variable size. It requires a temperate climate, does not tolerate low temperatures well, although it does withstand long periods of drought.
Some cultivated fig trees produce two crops of figs, one of figs in spring, larger in size, and another of figs in autumn.
The fruits can be eaten raw or dried. In the Alpujarra area "fig bread" is made.
A fig contains many calories and is easily digested.
The figs soothe the nervous strength, the must, cooked in arrope, promotes digestion, evacuates the stomach and is recommended for urinary bladder disorders.
The first fruit of the fig tree produced in late spring is called breva. Its thin skin and flavor is similar to that of figs, although it is not as sweet as figs.
The fig is the first fruit of the fig tree produced in late spring
The fig, contrary to popular belief, is not a fruit.
It is a fruit
It is a fleshy receptacle called 'syconium' in the shape of a pear that serves as a support for the male and female flowers that will originate small fruits called 'achenes' that we vulgarly call pips. It is therefore an infructescence.
The fleshy and sweet part of the fig or syconium corresponds to the flowers that after fertilization swell and become fleshy.
The fleshy and sweet part of the fig or syconium corresponds to the flowers that after fertilization swell and become fleshy
There are biiferous or re-flowering fig trees that give two harvests a year.
There are two fig trees that give two harvests a year
A first one, at the beginning of the summer (the figs); and another one, around October, the real figs.
Other fig trees bear only figs and are not re-flowering.
Other fig trees bear only figs and are not re-flowering
There are also monoecious fig trees that produce male and female flowers on the same tree and therefore do not usually need fertilizing devices.
But there are other fig trees, dioecious, in which the female flowers are on one tree and the male flowers (cabrahígos) are on others.
Fecundation (which may not be necessary) is achieved by bringing cabrahygote branches close to branches with female flowers.
A small insect, called a "blastophage", passes from the male flowers and fertilizes, with pollen attached to its body, the female flowers.
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However, there are female flowers that develop parthenocarpically.
All of these flowers are parthenocarpic
All these complex mechanisms made it possible in the Bible to speak of the "cursed fig tree", which refused to bear fruit.
There are thus fig trees that do not bear figs unless the female flowers have been fertilized by insects (Blastofaga psenes) with pollen from wild fig trees; if there are no goat figs nearby, bunches of male figs from other fig trees are hung on their branches.
Other fig trees, including those currently in cultivation, do not need such a contribution.
If there are no fig trees nearby, fig bunches from other fig trees are hung on their branches
It can be said that trees with female flowers produce edible fruit and those that produce male and female ones in which the reproduction of the fig cirife (Blastofaga psenes), which will pollinate the others, takes place.
It can be said that trees with female flowers produce edible fruit and those that produce male and female ones in which the fig cirife (Blastofaga psenes), which will pollinate the others, reproduces.
Fig trees with three generations of inflorescences occur on the same tree
The summer ones produce the figs, the spring ones are used for pollination, and the winter ones are used for the reproduction of the figs.
The fig trees are used to produce figs
It has two fructifications: the first one is the heathers, which are born in winter, in the axils of the leaves
Culture of figs or heathers
It withstands long periods of drought.
It can withstand long periods of drought
Sensitive to frost.
Sensitive to frost.
Sensitive to frost
Prefers dry and poor soils and has a large fruit production.
It prefers dry and poor soils and has a large fruit production.
