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  • Anyone good at recognising cultivars of Ficus Carica?

    From David@wibble@btinternet.com to uk.rec.gardening on Sun Oct 5 17:54:42 2025
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    I have a fig which I bought at Lidl a year or so ago, and have lost the
    label.

    I would not have knowingly bought another Brown Turkey, as I was looking
    for a different variant.

    However I asked the question on a gardening Facebook group and someone
    said that they had bought a Ficus Carica at Lidl.

    This is the generic name, and I am looking for the cultivar.

    If anyone is confident that they can identify different cultivars I will
    post a link to a photo.

    The most I have at the moment is that our Brown Turkey seems to have three lobed leaves and the mystery fig has five lobed leaves.
    Also the Brown Turkey fruits at the end of the branches whilst this one
    seems to be forming fruits in the leaf axils.

    Cheers



    Dave R
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  • From Jim the Geordie@jim@geordieland.com to uk.rec.gardening on Sun Oct 5 19:12:12 2025
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    On 05/10/2025 18:54, David wrote:
    I have a fig which I bought at Lidl a year or so ago, and have lost the label.

    I would not have knowingly bought another Brown Turkey, as I was looking
    for a different variant.

    However I asked the question on a gardening Facebook group and someone
    said that they had bought a Ficus Carica at Lidl.

    This is the generic name, and I am looking for the cultivar.

    If anyone is confident that they can identify different cultivars I will
    post a link to a photo.

    The most I have at the moment is that our Brown Turkey seems to have three lobed leaves and the mystery fig has five lobed leaves.
    Also the Brown Turkey fruits at the end of the branches whilst this one
    seems to be forming fruits in the leaf axils.

    Cheers



    Dave R

    Try PlantNet app in your phone. You take a photo and it is pretty good
    at recognising in detail.
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  • From Stewart Robert Hinsley@{$news$}@meden.demon.co.uk to uk.rec.gardening on Mon Oct 6 13:13:57 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.rec.gardening

    On 05/10/2025 19:12, Jim the Geordie wrote:
    On 05/10/2025 18:54, David wrote:
    I have a fig which I bought at Lidl a year or so ago, and have lost the
    label.

    I would not have knowingly bought another Brown Turkey, as I was looking
    for a different variant.

    However I asked the question on a gardening Facebook group and someone
    said that they had bought a Ficus Carica at Lidl.

    This is the generic name, and I am looking for the cultivar.

    If anyone is confident that they can identify different cultivars I will
    post a link to a photo.

    The most I have at the moment is that our Brown Turkey seems to have
    three
    lobed leaves and the mystery fig has five lobed leaves.
    Also the Brown Turkey fruits at the end of the branches whilst this one
    seems to be forming fruits in the leaf axils.

    Cheers



    Dave R

    Try PlantNet app in your phone. You take a photo and it is pretty good
    at recognising in detail.


    I don't suppose it will do any harm to try, but PlantNet is trained to identify species, not cultivars.

    Otherwise look at

    https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/search-results?query=Ficus%20carica
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