Wanted to share my latest roadside conquest...  Spotted this on a hiking trail that runs alongside the highway and although the fruit doesn't look that great, I couldn't help myself.  I don't know what it is, but it's a fig!!!!!   

Good luck in identifying it -- the fruit looks and feels deflated (for lack of a better word); the skin/meat itself feels squishy, thick and moist; the flower/seed area is on the drier side, but not completely dry; and the opening is tight.  It may just be dropping fruit early due to the latest heat wave....(??)  Also, most of the leaves on it had 5 lobes, but some had 3.

Does anyone have any ideas???







On another note, here's my dessert for tonight...

I got no clue about the new treasure but do enjoy dessert tonight.

goss

I'm on a trail right now in Washington and no figs. I rode my bike for hours and didn't find a single tree. I dont know how you guys are doing it. Great find.

i only found 1 tree since i started growing figs. but it's on someone's backyard, and very young tree. probably from HD, Lowes or Sam's club.

One morning I was going to work I saw some ladies picking mulberries. So I took a walk up that same street and lo and behold there is a fig tree growing in a vacant that's for sale. Well needless to say I went back home and got my clippers and clipped a piece of both.

Looks like a caprifig with flowers on the inside to me.