Hello folks on Figs 4 Fun Forum,

Maybe I should have read first the rules of what is appropriate to post, but this is a FIG topic. 

This is also my first post.

Thank you for having this site/forum and to all of you out there that offer your support to others via knowledge and sharing your collection via cuttings. (I just PM'd Charles for his 'Newbies' cultivars and am pretty excited to hopefully hear if he still has something left).

ANYWAY....

20+ years back a neighbor of my grandparents gave them a potted fig tree.  The tree is probably the same size (in height) it was when the tree was gifted to them.... at least from what I recall.  the trunk has probably just grown in diameter.  So, the neighbor said it was a Fiddle Fig and we all just took that to be true.  Well, now many years later the tree is mine to care for and this last year it fruited better than I recall ever seeing it do in the past.  The fruit was/is just little marble sized fellows that start green and stay small and hard marbles for a good while... but then change to red... and finally to a purple and crack a bit and have a drop of sap at the stem end. That's when they are tasty little treats. 

To move the story along... After looking up Fiddle Figs online... to see what the fruit was supposed to be like because the fruit on my tree is so tiny... I saw that Fiddle Figs are named such because of the large fiddle shaped leaves.

The question was then... what is it that I have then????

I believe I now have the answer and I am kind of delighted that it is what it is because this is certainly something I would never stumble upon in any nursery.

Drum roll....

I believe I have an African Rock Fig. 

Oh... I am attaching a couple pictures of the tree in question.  I need to get a little larger of a pot for the poor fellow.  Been in a 15Gal for a long time.

Thank you for your time...

As time goes on hopefully I can contribute to the forum as well as many of you other fine folks.

Okay, I think I attached a link to the fruit and leaves.
 

If that worked... this is the potted tree.
 

Pictures???

John must be out of space .

Upload them to Photobucket and copy and paste the img link here. The pics will be beautiful !

Ficus Glumosa looks very interesting but don't sound very tasty.  Although it seems very appropriate for wildlife in the climates it grows and looks like a nice decorative plant!

This forum is really about ficus carica. 
There are 1,000s of ficus carica varieties all over the world and people have gone crazy for figs since time began for humans!  Try one you will get hooked..lol

Your tree could be Afghanistanica Silver Lyre fig if leaves resemble ice crystal and have silver tint.I have seen them at nurseries before and the fruit description you gave sounds the same.Negretta is also called the rock fig but it is not from Africa.

Looks nice! Welcome and thanks for sharing.

At one time I had a rubber tree house plant.  I was thinking your tree looks a lot like it.  I ran across this: https://redcarproperty.blogspot.com/2012/07/corralitas-drive-rubber-tree-fruit.html.
I never knew the house plant could fruit.