In 2011 I started a whole bunch of cuttings. As each rooted in paper towels I moved them to cups and later to pots. One cutting refuse to put on root after all the rest were gone. I put it in a cup and put it with the rest of the cupped cuttings in the shade of a large fig tree in a clear tote with a crack in the cover. When all the rest were move to pots the lone cutting sat by itself. I quit tending to it. I happened to check on it about a month later to find it sitting in a cup of dry soil. I left it alone. Another month passed and I was cleaning up under the large fig tree as I had some pots scattered all over. When I opened the tote I picked up the cup with the cutting and dry soil to dispose of it, I saw a small green bud on it. I moved it to a better home and it begin to grow. A miracle for sure.
"gene"

It has been said that the fig tree is the "weed" of trees, I for one think it is the KING.  The fig is easily the most forgiving, hardest to kill plant I know, other than Bermuda grass.  We confuse rooting with living.  They may be cantankerous and inconsistent in rooting but once they have a foothold they are extremely durable frequently living beyond 100 yrs old.  I have a cutting from a tree that was split by lightening into two trees, both surviving and flourishing (only to be killed by a developer)

Somewhere there should be, an ode to a fig tree,
old and bold, a sight to behold,
the majestic fig, the tree of life.

I have one just like that gene. Lol. I love the story