What Are Fig Types?

Figs are categorized into four main Types, based upon their reproductive characteristics.

These four are:

A previous publication (Condit, 1933) presents a section on the botany and classification of figs, which may be summarized as follows. The fig fruit is a hollow receptacle or syconium, on the inner surface of which the flowers are produced. Fundamentally, the flowers are of two kinds, staminate and pistillate. Staminate flowers are found only in receptacles bearing short-styled flowers. Pistillate flowers are found in all figs and may be either short-styled or long-styled. Figs having short-styled flowers belong to the most primitive horticultural group, the caprifigs. All figs having long-styled flowers develop under favorable conditions into edible fruits and are classified, horticulturally, into three groups: Smyrna, San Pedro, and common.
Fig Characteristics Useful in the Identification of Varieties by Ira J. Condit

Fig Types | Growing Fig Trees | Smyrna

The Smyrna Fig At Home And Abroad by George C. Roeding

ByLance February 15, 2023August 25, 2023

Practical Smyrna Fig Culture, together with an Account of the Introduction of the Wild or Capri Fig, and the Establishment of the Fig Wasp (Blastophaga grossorum) in America.