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A small local nursery is selling these interesting looking figs which the owner describes as ground creepers. He says the fruits are brown. No further information is forth coming at the moment. Any guesses as to the variety?photo_1.jpg  photo_1.jpg 

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Interesting fig.  At first I thought maybe they pruned it that way, but doesn't look like it.

Actually, my Verte wants to do that, but only because it's so heavy with fat figs.  We have propped all it's branches up with braces.

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Hi Suzi,

The nurseryguy is selling them as ground covers. He is also trying to get a name for me.
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I was given a 6y.o. fig tree with this pattern of growth. Mine is a Peter's Honey.
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Frank,
  Do a search on "creeping figs" on the forum and you'll see a couple of exchanges about this, some from last autumn.  There is some speculation that these may have been propagated via tissue culture.  I'm working from memory here and paraphrasing very inexactly, but I think the notion was that the tissue culture plants tended to send out a lot of shoots and branches, and if there was no one shoot/branch that was an obvious dominant apical meristem with vertical growth, then all the shoots/branches would tend to splay out more or less horizontally.  Some people thought that if you used a support and trained one shoot/branch to grow vertically, then the tree would start to grow more normally.
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hm... looks like the fig that this guy on youTube describes as Chicken Fig, because he never gets to eat them, his chicken finish them off... you might be able to still find that clip on YouTube. He is demonstrating how to propagate figs and so forth...
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Aaron,
Are you just trying to see how many people you can get to search chicken fig? Haha. Makes sense though. Very interesting growth. If anyone finds out the varieties associated I would be interested to know. Thanks!
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Frank,
  Here's a link to a thread I started last August on some very similar looking figs.  Toward the end, ASCPETE weighed in with some strong ideas.
The thread was called strange weeping/creeping figs.
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Jim
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The Paradiso I got from figtrees.net (Joe Morle) in 2007 grows like this but the leaves make it pretty obvious it's not a Paradiso.
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Aaron, Are you just trying to see how many people you can get to search chicken fig? Haha. Makes sense though. Very interesting growth. If anyone finds out the varieties associated I would be interested to know. Thanks!
Scott...!  check this video at 1:00 point. see what the guy is calling it and why. LOL
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Hi,
Potted trees can react like that - perhaps after going rootbound . Is that tree rootbound ?
Last Saturday, I saw a brunswick growing like that - and have seen trees at nurseries growing like that and all are rootbound like crazy - more roots than remaining dirt in the pot.
But I don't know if they were or not issued from tissue-culture - but "I would think" that they were not tissue-culture as fig trees are so easy to propagate...
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the guy in the clip is calling the Chocken Fig "Magnolia" ... does Magnolia look like that? Maybe he doesn't know the real name.
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Hi Aaron4USA,
magnolia=brunswick :) .

But my supposed Brunswick in ground is at 1m30 after two full years from cutting. The mother tree reached 2 meters last year after 6 years of growth, so not really crawling ... when in ground.
But they are growing bushy ! Even the small ones.
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yes yes... jdfrance, does it makes sense? you saw Brunswick hugging the ground this guy says Magnolia is that way... must be a truth somewhere in between.

Hoosierguy86, there's your answer;)
 Chicken Fig is the ground hugger!  LOL
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i call this one zeta. it's a Socorro Black that's been creeping x) 

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