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Plant: Celeste Fig
Ficus carica 'Celeste'
$44.00
Size: 3 gal
Light
Full Sun
Bloom
Spring
More about this plant
A self-fruitful fig, also sold as Sugar Fig, that stays a manageable size of about 7 to 15 feet and is hardy in zones 7 to 10. It bears small to medium purplish bronze figs with honey-sweet pinkish amber flesh in summer, good fresh or dried. Grow it in full sun with moist, well-drained soil, in the ground or in a container.
- Full Sun
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 7-10
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
A self-fruitful fig, also sold as Sugar Fig, that stays a manageable size of about 7 to 15 feet and is hardy in zones 7 to 10. It bears small to medium purplish bronze figs with honey-sweet pinkish amber flesh in summer, good fresh or dried. Grow it in full sun with moist, well-drained soil, in the ground or in a container.
- Flowers
- Insignificant green flowers develop hidden inside the developing fruit.
- Foliage
- Simple, alternate, deeply 3 to 5 lobed leaves 5 to 10 inches long, rough on top and paler and smooth beneath.
- Fruit
- Small to medium figs with purplish bronze skin and sweet, pinkish amber flesh, ripening in summer.
- Bark & stems
- Light gray, smooth bark that becomes bumpier with age; plants produce many suckers.
- Pruning
- Light pruning each winter may be necessary to maintain an attractive shape.
- Native range
- Mediterranean to Central Asia
