Unknown Figs are such an enigma but they are the cheapest way to start a collection and there could be some real gems along the way.

So far I have found about a dozen figs,several of which are BT,one Brunswick for sure,some I haven't managed to get to yet,,but the rest I'm not sure of.Were such a big city with so few figs :(.

I thought I'd share a few pics of these mystery trees(I love seeing everyone's pics from around the world)and hopefully enlist some help in ID'ing them.Rather than post them individually I think I'll post them all here to help document what I find and report back.

Here's the first one,this is my Monument Unk,named after the road.Fig tree is HUGE,but it can't be more than 60 years old,it's at the back of a council property built in the '60's,the area has seen a lot of immigration from all over the world,firstly from Southern Europe.

I discovered the fig in July,in ground,no figs so I initially didn't take cuttings.Walked past in July,the tree had been cut back heavily,lots of wood left piled up which had been baking in the sun for a week or so,I took cuttings from the middle of the wood hoping it wouldn't be dry,it wasn't and has since rooted,it is a very vigourous rooter,quick and with big healthy roots. The tips have since put on a lot of growth and there are now clusters of small,green,open eyed and very FLAT immature figs all over the tree in early September.

Anyone got any ideas on what this fig could be?,

Second/third one I think are the same,nicknamed Shetland Unk.,also found what I am sure is a Brunswick nearby,lots of variation in the size of figs,,big,upright and well branched trees,very healthy sporting a really good crop this year.Figs are nice,thin skin,figgy,sweet but not very complex,suspecting this one is probably a BT but I have a few strains so far but all seem to produce smaller more purplish fleshed figs,could be just that this is a healthier mature specimen?.This is only 1 of 2 trees I've had ripe fruit off this year,some of the figs on this tree have been over 100g,most around the 80sh mark.

1st tree - leafs Look exactly like khurtmani leafs. A lot of them have a side tooth on the middle lobe and have 5 lobes at most.
Are the leafs feathery in texture?

Waiting for fruit pics.

Thanks Eli,that's an interesting one I had not even considered, leaves are thick?,can't really recall if I would say they were leathery.The only fruit pic I have if the one I posted of the immature fruit,very squat/flat bottomed fruit,they all seem to be borne in clusters right at the tip of each branch and 4-6 alternating or either side at the nodes which are very tightly spaced right at the end of the branches

The pulp us shaped like a tree !!!!

Richie,didn't notice that before,that's pretty cool!,and to think I just snapped pics and then scoffed them!,do you think that one is likely a BT?,or is it going to be something more interesting?,I have about 4 I am confident are BT's already ;)

The fruit shape and leaf shape for The 1st looks similar to LSU gold from the f4f database but as this is a UK tree I was dubious that it could be that.Ill try and get some more pics next chance I get (next week now),the really striking thing on this one is the clustering if the figs,leaves also seem to have an extra side tooth on a lot of the central lobes

This tree is the fourth,it's just around the corner from the others,medium-Ish tree,fairly bushy,new figs forming,again it has been cut back by the council but bounced back quick,I managed to take cuttings from this one as well,havent rooted yet but they were taken weeks after the 1st tree are in the mini greenhouse so should be ok.No pics of the figs,by the time I managed to take photos it had already been cut back from the fence and started to grow back so figs were embryonic,pretty standard shape and light green.

Leaves are pretty unusual shape though,some very broad and 'petal' like,shallow loved and some deeper lobed with an extra little tooth like finger between the side lobes and the central lobe

Hello Haslamhulme. I think, to ID a fig you must show ripe fruit and its interior too. Its hard to ID just by looking at leaf and unripe fig. by the way, you got lots of unknown fig which is very interesting. I wonder how your Cadbury and Oldbury unk look like. I only know Cadbury chocolate LOL

Thanks,it is difficult without the fig,I should have some next year hopefully,have small plants grown from each of these unknowns.I found lots of unknowns,that's because I walk a lot around the area I work on the edge of the city,plenty of figs about if you train your eye,I have found about a dozen.Thr Cadbury is a purple fig incidentally,so named because it's on a property on a street which was owned by the Cadbury family,The Oldbury Unk is probably a BT but not sure yet

The Shetland black and Cadbury are the most promising unknowns I've found so far,Shetland I have pics of the leaves and fruit posted here.I thought it might be a BT but after rooting it I know it's not the same as the other BT's I have,it has pink buds before they break

That sound really good fig. Love your place. Fig are everywhere.

I live in a city of 3 million people,you would think there were more than a dozen fig trees here but they are hard to track down,some areas are great,others fig-less for miles,I'll update the topic here once I've got more to say on these,for the time being the plants I've grown are still too small to tell me much