Thank you fellows for your comments on my post with those fig pictures
Brian,
The names for those figs are:
nr1 - Côtio/Verdeal , Common
nr2 - Inchario Branco (strain SV), Smyrna
nr3 - Bebera Branca , Common
nr4 - Seedling (temporarily called Jade fig), probably Smyrna
nr5 - Inchário Branco (strain AP) , Smyrna
They have all been repeatedly shown and talked about on this forum and there are more pictures on my (lampo) picture file with flickr .
Regarding the question on wasps, I must say yes, we do have wasps...(all over my District) with a full Med climate... between 10 and 11 as per your standards.
In the country as well as in urban areas it is easy to find fig trees on back and front yards and of the best varieties, be they Common, Smyrna or San Pedro.
To make pollination easy and 'automatic' , people do bud or graft a pair of Caprifig scions on a branch or two of their figs and when the proper time comes (mid June) the wasps from the Caprifigs on the grafted branches will spread in the area and pollinate all figs
On established orchards of hundreds of trees, farmers grow several Caprifig trees in the middle of the other figs in a rate of 1 to 20 or 25 Common or Smyrna.
On Mike's question of what climate for Caprifigs (carica) , I can say that long...long time ago they were available in Texas and Florida...Western Australia, South Africa,..
The wild fig may stand as all other figs, rather low and/or high temperatures ,however the insect developing inside the wild syconiums will be killed by continued temps bellow 0º C and above 35ºC.
Francisco
Portugal