      
Taxon: Ficus carica L.
Genus: Ficus section: Ficus
Family: Moraceae tribe: Ficeae.
Nomen number: 16801
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:1059. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 08-Mar-2004 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 16-Jan-2009
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Davis (DAV).
Accessions:
349 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
See also subordinate taxa:
- common fig (Source: Mansf Ency
) – English
- fig (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- teen (Source: Ill L Qatar
) – Arabic
- wu hua guo (Source: F ChinaEng
) – Transcribed Chinese
- carique (Source: Mansf Ency
) – French
- figuier commun (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French
- echte Feige (Source: Zander ed17
) – German
- Essfeige (Source: Mansf Ency
) – German
- Feigenbaum (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German
- anjir (Source: Mansf Ency
) – India (Hindi)
- fico (Source: HerbSpices
) – Italian
- muhwagwanamu (Source: Kulturpflanze
34:100.) – Transcribed Korean
- figueira (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Portuguese
- figo (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- figueira-comum (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- figueira-da-europa (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- figueira-do-reino (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- higo (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- higuera común (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- fikon (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn
) – Swedish
- getfikon (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn
) – Swedish
- More:
- More:
Native:
- AFRICA
Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Morocco; Tunisia
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Iran [n. & w.]; Iraq [n.]; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
Caucasus: Azerbaijan
Middle Asia: Tajikistan [s.]; Turkmenistan [s.]
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: Pakistan [n.]
- EUROPE
Southeastern Europe: Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]
Southwestern Europe: France [s. & Corsica]; Spain - Baleares
Naturalized:
- AFRICA
Macaronesia: Cape Verde; Portugal - Azores, Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
- AUSTRALASIA
Australia: Australia
New Zealand: New Zealand
- EUROPE
Europe
- NORTHERN AMERICA
United States
- SOUTHERN AMERICA
Western South America: Ecuador - Galapagos Islands
Cultivated: - widely cultivated in tropics & subtropics
Other: - exact native range obscure
- Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds.
Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
- Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson.
2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
- Campbell, F. T., ed.
1995. Report of National Coalition of Exotic Plant Pest Councils. (unpublished draft)
- Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds.
1986–1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols.
- Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
- Erhardt, W. et al.
2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
[re. Brazilian common names].
- Hanelt, P., ed.
2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
1:368–370.
- Hnatiuk, R. J.
1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
- Howard, R.
1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
- Huxley, A., ed.
1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
- Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann.
1985. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants.
- Mabberley, D. J.
1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
- Meyer, F. G. et al.
1994. A catalog of cultivated woody plants of the southeastern United States.
- Mun-Chan, B. et al.
1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants.
Kulturpflanze
34:100.
- Norton, J. et al.
2009. Illustrated checklist of the flora of Qatar.
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
- Uphof, J. C. T.
1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2.
- Weber, E.
2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
- Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other web resources for Ficus carica L.:
Images:
- Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
- More:
- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
-
 Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be
inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require
specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with
properly documented herbarium material.
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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?16801 (18 May 2013)
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