Interesting Website for Plants Info including Figs

OttawanZ5
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I was surfing for small fruit pollination information and bumped into this website which has brief info on many plants including figs.

There is a lot of anecdotal, historical and botanical information about figs cramped in the short write-up, such as the ficus species being 65 million years old, cultivation starting 3000 BC, its association with spiritual world, Cato the Elder persuasion of the Roman Senate to launch the third Punic war partly on the prospect of capturing Africa's delectable fig and pomegranate crop, as well as the extra curricular use of the name (fig) by ancient Greeks, all here (alphabetically scroll down to 'Fig'):

http://www.luvnpeas.org/edibility/edible4.html#Fig

It also persuaded me not to rush for Kadota again for my cold climate now that my two cuttings did not root this winter (or rooted but did not make it).

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pitangadiego
1244613797

See link 036 at http://figs4fun.com/Fig_links.html

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OttawanZ5
1244650699

Yes, thanks, you have already covered it for figs (under Luv N Peas).

The poet overlooks the fact that the fig is a flower by itself when complaining or complimenting how fig omits flowers.

The following link will make it more versatile (alphabetically covering many plants including figs):

http://www.luvnpeas.org/edibility/edible.html

I planted a gooseberry, blackberry and white Nanking cherry and afterward learned from this site that the first two are self-fertile and don't need pollinators but the Nanking needs another variety for pollination (or dig it out to make room for another good plant).

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