Ficus caricaL.

common fig

WFO wfo-0000687690 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f

Ficus carica, photographed by velodrome
fig. a velodrome, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205656184
Ficus carica, photographed by luluchouette
fig. b luluchouette, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203909880
Ficus carica, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. c Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197755145
Ficus carica, photographed by Andre Hosper
fig. d Andre Hosper, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196792885
Ficus carica, photographed by Fabien Piednoir
fig. e Fabien Piednoir, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 195358664
Ficus carica, photographed by Quentin Groom
fig. f Quentin Groom, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195759811

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 95 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 95 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 35 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Caprificus insectifera Gasp.
  • Caprificus leucocarpa Gasp.
  • Caprificus oblongata Gasp.
  • Caprificus pedunculata (Miq.) Gasp.
  • Caprificus rugosa (Miq.) Gasp.
  • Caprificus sphaerocarpa Gasp.
  • Ficus albescens Miq.
  • Ficus burdigalensis Poit. & Turpin
  • Ficus caprificus Risso
  • Ficus carica var. caprificus (Risso) Tschirch
  • Ficus carica var. domestica Czern. & Rav.
  • Ficus carica var. globosa Hausskn.
  • Ficus carica var. riparium Hausskn.
  • Ficus carica var. rupestris Hausskn. ex Boiss.
  • Ficus colchica Grossh.
  • Ficus colombra Gasp.
  • Ficus communis Lam.
  • Ficus deliciosa Gasp.
  • Ficus dottata Gasp.
  • Ficus globosa Miq.
  • Ficus hypoleuca Gasp.
  • Ficus hyrcana Grossh.
  • Ficus kopetdagensis Pachom.
  • Ficus latifolia Salisb.

and 11 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.