I was driving with my wife in Sacramento, we were parked at a red light. I happen to look over and at a gas station parking lot, by the street was a fig tree growing!! Had a few immature figs on the tree. The figs had a really long stem, or whatever you call it, that attaches the fig to the tree. Anyone in Sac-town, the gas station was on Auburn St by the 80, check it out! I should've took a couple of cuttings.

Check out my little 'CliffHanger' fig...
http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/Figs-up-the-Wall-5475494

I saw a large fig tree growing out of a second floor wall in the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul.  I walked upstairs to see what was on the other side.  It was a balcony.  The tree had grown through the wall and rooted into the leaves and dirt which had accumulated in the corner.

Zafra, Extremadura Spain  (approx GPS 38.41974,-6.417239)

The fig tree was growing out of a small crack between a building and the sidewalk. There was nothing but hardscape (buildings, sidewalks, streets) for at least 100 feet in any direction, so I have no idea how it got there.

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I think the amazing thing is none of these are really so uncommon.

There was no reason for this fig to be growing here its between the crack of the blacktop and the brick wall at a sewage treatment plant about 20 ft to the left was where the sewage literally just flowed like a river in concrete channels I was on a drilling job there and seen the tree. Plant workers told me that there where alot of italian immigrants that use to plant vegetables etc back in the day probably before that building went up thats the only reason I could think it was there. There was also another one growing to the right about 2ft tall between blacktop and brick.

Heres one I found in Catalonia a few years ago..  I wonder how it is getting any nutrients.

Scott

Some fig friend in Canada grow them in Zone 4!  A bit weird if not too much.
Pretty soon someone from Zone 3 will join (or might have, but not posting). 

I saw fig trees planted in a parking lot which I though was pretty funny

Somebody posted one growing upside down it a tunnel a little while ago.

Well, that beats the knowledge that figs do not grow from seeds, how else would it grow in a crack? this is a fascinating trail. Love the pictures.

Tony, that one has special long finger leaves. Did you get a tree from that bush?

No unfortunately i didnt i spoke with one of the workers and he said he didnt see fruit for years so i didnt bother

It looks like a brunswick though and i have that allready

It does look Bruswick-like, but my guess would be it doesn't fruit because of the poor conditions there. No nutrients, looks shady, and probably no winter protection aside from the heat the wall and sidewalk hold.

My favorite was some figs I saw growing out of the "Ear of Dionysius" in the old marble quarry outside of Syracuse. I have a picture of it buried in the album somewhere. Luckily my wife was with me to talk me out of scaling the cliff for a cutting!

Plenty of sun but i agree no nutrients

Zafra, Extremadura Spain....fig tree growing out of a tiny crack between a building and the sidewalk...no exposed earth for at least 100 feet in any direction 


http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/show_single_post?pid=1275323457&postcount=4

In a crack in asphalt between the back of a  building and a chaining fence with barbwire in the Bronx NY.  No houses or anything growing anywhere near by.   A chance seedling?

While visiting about 5 years ago, I saw a fig growing in downtown Anchorage, Alaska. I thought it was remarkable until learning that Anchorage's location in the ice-free Cook Inlet is somewhat temperate in comparison with other northern latitude cities (average daytime winter temperatures are about 5 to 30 °F).

TY TY nursery  The king of weird. Just watch their videos. 

http://imgur.com/a/MR9bn

I saw this on reddit a little while back.

It is a fig growing out of the top of a palm tree!  Seed must have sneaked in there via birds.


Also,

In Italy I've seen fig trees grow out of thee cracks on walls around some of the towns I visited in Italy (Orvieto, Montalcino, etc).

Cheers,

Phil

Haha!

At the risk of alienating half my fellow figgers. . .

Front page of Drudge right now has a pic of a (the?) wall in Israel showing the unusual event of snowfall, and there is clearly a fig tree gowing out of the wall.

I don't know if this link will work, or for how long, but I have properly attributed it, I think:

 

I know, I know.  No politics, no religion.  Good policy.

Now back to our regularly scheduled programing.