A gift from Nature, born deep in the Wild !
A small edible black fig with exquisite insides. Could not risk leave it on the tree to ideal ripeness in 2 or 3 more days.

 
 
   
Francisco
Portugal

Congrats that is one beautiful looking fig....I'm sure it tasted just as good

Francisco thanks
reminded me to go look for a tree i have been following growing wild in the street.

Will Post results here if its ripe.

Did you plant a bunch of seeds and trial the plants or did you find the seedling randomly growing?  The pics remind me a bit of the pics of the Spanish fig introduced to the U.S. by Bass called Galicia Negra.

Thank you all for looking and commenting on this post and pictures

The taste and flavors of this small fruit may I say,  are in the berry area, sweet and super crunchy as well.

It comes from a lone wild fig probably originated from bird droppings on the North flank of a range of calcareous boulders. It was the only fruit left and there were apparent signs that birds may have eaten all other figs.
Being full of fertile seeds the critters eating these figs will in turn carry on propagating and seeding more wild figs the majority,  certainly caprifigs

I am sure this fig was pollinated but cannot tell yet if it is a Common or a Smyrna....Believe there will be very few chances for being a Common... more inclined for it to be a full Caducous type.

Looking at the cutaways it is obvious that a passage was open through the fig eye slightly off center  by the pollinator wasps.. and they were not one or two only ! To dig that tunnel a good bunch of them may have entered the fig, and rubbed their pollen smeared bodies over the flowers inside the synconium .
They seem to have done a good job as all flowers seem to have received enough pollen and fruited

Rewton, this is not for sure the Spanish fig Bass called Galicia Negra and you right it has some looks.
If given time to fully ripen, its pulp would most probably turn all violet.
At the proper timing I will try and take a few scions to root as well as graft next spring.

Francisco
Portugal

Even if the edible wild figs are rare, it is great that you still find plants that are tasty enough to bring home to grow. I know I would be tasting any I found if they grew wild in my area. Thanks for sharing this Francisco.

Mike in Hanover, VA

Thanks Francisco this was a great link with lots of information on ficus caria lifecycle.

For my purpose I was hoping to cut open an unripe fig an be able to tell if it is a smyrna or a common type. 
The publication says; Smyrna-type figs are homozygous recessive for the caduceus trait while common figs are heterozygous i.e parthenocarpic

unfortunately I don't understand genes and chromosomes. 
I need a picture of a cut open unripe Smyrna so I can see what the difference with common figs looks like so I can check to see  if several figs I have are san pedro type.
   

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Originally Posted by lampo
A gift from Nature, born deep in the Wild !
A small edible black fig with exquisite insides. Could not risk leave it on the tree to ideal ripeness in 2 or 3 more days.

 
 
   
Francisco
Portugal

Thanks a lot