Here's some pictures of an upside down fig tree growing at Nero's palace in Baia in Naples, Italy " I wonder what variety this is?" 

 

one man's weed. . .

wow

Hmmm...I wonder how the roots are getting water.

Could this be a sucker from roots of the tree on top above the arch?

Trunkless tree...
How do you water that thing without taking a shower in the process?
You ever use a ladder to take root suckers from a fig tree?
You can ALWAYS reach the fruit at the very top of the tree...
You ever get manure in your eyes?
Try leaning against THAT tree...
Is that where the tomato people got their idea?
If you take cuttings from that tree, do you plant them upside down so's to not confuse them?
No critter damage on that bark...
No weeding!
And finally...
How do you know the fruit's almost ripe?

I was thinking more along the lines of how does sun reach a tree that's in a cave.  But I guess it's right near the entrance, so maybe it gets decent light. 

That tree is obviously native to the southern hemisphere, which would explain why it is growing upside-down in the northern hemisphere ;-)
Jim

Topsy Turvy of the extreme kind.  Neat!

talk about falling thru the cracks!!

I've been doing it wrong..

Here is one little upside down 'cliff-hanger' good fig I once encountered:
 

Man, that's one tough tree. Cool.

Amazing, those fig trees thrive with so little available nutrients or organic matter. I recall reading something here about rooting fig cuttings upside down, I think it was to control stretching. Maybe someone else remembers more about this...

How did that upside down, under the bridge fig get there? I can't imaging a bird dropping that seed

Mike in Hanover, VA

gorgi that is beautiful any idea of the variety? hope you got a cutting!

Where there's a will, there's a way.

Hi,
Is that a man's work ? - growing technique test ? as in growing technique against a wall, but at the roof ?
Was that tree planted like that on purposes or did she grow there ?
I don't see how that tree could get sun until being at least a meter in depth :) .
I would imagine there was once a tree over the bridge and she was cut down, thus forcing the tree to grow were she could.
I've seen figtrees growing on walls because of that, but on an arch, I had never seen that ... The photo is not photoshoped as all the leaves are growing in the direction to the sun .
Funny, the tree could grow in a round shape as the leaves behind -leaves growing to the rear wall- don't get direct light ...
Does the tree fruit ?
As for nutrients and water, it is obvious that the tree is fed from above - So just lay the manure and throw water on the bridge so to say on the tree :).
I have already written in the forum that my figtrees like to get the stems and leaves watered - not only the roots - that tree for sure gets her stems watered as the water will flow from roof to the ground.
Nice find !

OK, clearly you guys taught me the wrong techniques.

My going on 2 year old BM from UCDavis is still 3 inches tall - clearly alive and with leaves, but unchanged in height for a year.  It is planted in the most expensive potting material available; lovingly watered with various diluted fertilizers, shuffled in and out from the deck if temps threaten to agitate it, etc.

And this tree - which you show me now - is growing upside down, out of rock, in the shade!

Now I have to go out and build arches throughout my backyard! Thanks for the heads up, jerks!  I could have built all these arches LAST year when I had all the left over bricks.

Man - that's one messed up tree.  I wonder if the fig flavor has been described as 'unbalanced'.

Andrew

I think this proves that we are trying too hard.

Does anyone know if that's a bridge or an aqueduct?