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Ficus carica (piku; fiku; edible fig; common fig)

Synonyms:

Infraspecies

Ficus carica carica (Edible Fig)
Ficus carica rupestris

Attributes

Air Quality Improvement [1]  None
Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Carbon Capture [1]  Medium-Low
Shade Percentage [1]  86 %
Temperature Reduction [1]  Medium
Wind Reduction [1]  Medium
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Monoecious
Hazards [2]  The sap and the half-ripe fruits are said to be poisonous; The sap can be a serious eye irritant;
Leaf Type [2]  Deciduous
Lifespan [3]  Perennial
Structure [2]  Tree
Usage [2]  Wood - pliable but porous and of little value; It is used for hoops, garlands, ornaments etc; When saturated with oil and covered with emery is used as a substitute for a hone;
Height [2]  20 feet (6 m)
Width [2]  20 feet (6 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 8 Low Temperature: 10 F° (-12.2 C°) → 20 F° (-6.7 C°)
Hardiness Zone Maximum [1]  USDA Zone: 10 Low Temperature: 30 F° (-1.1 C°) → 40 F° (4.4 C°)
Water Use [1]  Moderate
View Plants For A Future Record : Ficus carica

Protected Areas

Predators

Providers

Pollinated by 
Blastophaga psenes (Fig wasp)[19]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Blastophaga psenes (Fig wasp)[6]
Discocriconemella limitanea[17]
Filenchus exiguus <Unverified Name>[17]
Helicotylenchus dihystera (Steiner's spiral nematode)[17]
Shelter for 
Blastophaga psenes (Fig wasp)[19]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1i-Tree Species v. 4.0, developed by the USDA Forest Service's Northern Research Station and SUNY-ESF using the Horticopia, Inc. plant database.
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
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♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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♦ 15Parabemisia myricae (Kuwana) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae: Aleyrodinae), Avas B. Hamon, Ru Nguyen, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Plant Industry, and Harold Browning, University of Florida, June 2000. Latest revision: August 2014
♦ 16NOTES ON THE DIET OF THE CRIMSON-COLLARED GROSBEAK (RHODOTHRAUPIS CELAENO) IN NORTHEASTERN MEXICO, Jack Clinton Eitniear & Alvaro Aragon Tapia, ORNITOLOGIA NEOTROPICAL 11: 363–364, 2000
♦ 17Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
♦ 18New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
♦ 19Longevity of a fig wasp (Blastophaga psenes), Finn Kjellberg, Brigitte Doumesche, and Judith L. Bronstein, ECOLOGY Preceedings C 91 (2), June 20, 1998, pp. 117-122
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0