An ancient Mediterranean fruit tree grown for millennia for its sweet, soft edible figs — a deciduous shrub (10-15 ft) or small tree (to 15-30 ft) with bold, deeply 3-5 lobed palmate leaves and smooth silver-gray bark that gnarls handsomely with age. Its tiny greenish flowers bloom hidden inside hollow receptacles that swell into the fruit; most cultivars are parthenocarpic, setting figs without pollination. Best in USDA Zones 8-10, it survives Zones 6-7 in sheltered, south-facing spots with winter protection or grown in containers moved indoors.

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