MULBERRY FAMILY
Ficus carica subsp.carica(FIG)
(incir) (Feigenbaum)
Moraceae
Lactiferous, shrubs or trees. Stems spreading, to 10 m or more. Leaves alternate, deciduous, large and rough, palmately lobed. Flowers thiny inconspicuous, enclosed in fleshy receptacle with a small mouth at the top, monoecious or rarely dioecious. Fruits fleshy, pear-shaped syncarp and pyriform or depressed-globose. Fl. March-April, May-June, August-September. Open places and mixed forests, stony slopes in river valleys, in fissures of rocks.
The subspecies is wild or naturalised from the Es. Mediterranean to Turkmenia and
Tadzhikistan.
