My wife and I often go for drives through the agricultural areas that surround Yuma, AZ and often find old fig trees around the older farm buildings. This past week we discovered these old, sprawling trees. The wall behind them, to the north, is 8 feet tall but what is distinctive about them are their sprawling nature. They are growing in depressions that appear to be occasionally flooded and many of the limbs are resting on the ground. I don't know how old they are but the main trunks, at the ground, are more than 8" thick. We'll go back in a few months and see if we can determine the variety and try to get more information about them. Most of the old trees we have found so far have been black mission and this mat well be the same. 

My husband grew up in Somerton, graduated from Yuma High School.  His parents planted lots of fruit trees including fig trees. His parents passed in 1955 and the home place was sold but we think the trees are there because it was 11 acres of land and the big black figs were planted along the canal. The green fig trees were planted near the home.   It is located on the main Road through Somerton. My husband is now 74 and still remembers how good they figs tasted.

Wow!  Look how leafed out they are!  Mine are just starting to put leaves back on and I'm about 130 miles north of you in Cottonwood.

Thanks for posting those pics.