Here's one of the most attractive fig trees at uc davis. It's a F. Palmatum x F. carica hybrid. DFIC0023

It tastes very good.

That is definitely a gorgeous fruit.

That tree would look better in my yard.

Mine never fruited [Hybrid_23 (2005.UCD23) (carica x palmata)].
It just kept growing huge leaves and taller.
I do recognize the leaves.
I eventually destroyed it 2 years ago.  Was that a mistake?

I would love to have one of those just for its beauty, Ive seen allot of figs with a drop of honey at the eye but never a red drop that alone is enough for me to want one. Now the next question is how difficult will it be to obtain one of these beauties???

really is a beautiful fruit.

Yes, I now think that I should waited some more time!

Thinking hard and asking myself if it produced any figlets?
I think yes, but they dropped off. One thing for sure,
the plant stood out very different from all my regular
F.carica kind (and rightly so, it is a hybrid!).
Even my wife once asked me: "what is that tree"?
Being a real "wild-thing", so to speak, scared me. 

Thanks to Bass, we now know that it performs pretty/well
in California (where the famous fig-wasp does exist).

The BIG  question...does it need caprification?

May need pollination? Might explain the fruit drop.

I will ask Malli to put a netting around the figlets next year to find out for sure if it needs the wasp.

Nelson its unlikely a red sap drop on the eye .
 When taken the red area under it comes thru the "clear sap" in a picture.
For example
post 22 picture 2&3
http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=4831983

Here's a closer picture.

WOW what a FIG

Does it need a wasp to pollinate?

We trust in our Bass for not trying to pull a fast one;
something like, was it TyTy?  did (with their Blue fig!).
[even the back ground looks somewhat bluish!]

Looks like a must for a collector.

Yes they need a wasp,take it from me,I discarded the 2 plant I had, for this reason,in 2006!.
It is a good grower in warm climates as a ornamental tree,but fruits,unless you are in Smyrna Turkey,or Central Ca,forget about it.

Here are the pix:





Also Palmata Hybrid