Weeping Fig, Chinese Banyan (Ficus benjamina)

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Calalily Deep South Coastal, TX(Zone 10a) Mar 06, 2003

I didn't see this tree bloom, but it has fruit.

Common name: Weeping Fig, Chinese Banyan
Family: Moraceae
Genus: Ficus
Species benjamina

Plant Link: http://plantsdatabase.com/go/719/

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windsurffer (Zone 5a) Mar 07, 2003

Are these edible? If so I would love to have a few when they are ripe and by that time I will have something to offer as a bribe.

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Calalily Deep South Coastal, TX(Zone 10a) Mar 07, 2003

Wind, I don't think they are edible, they are very small, about the size of the end of your pinkie finger.

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windsurffer (Zone 5a) Mar 08, 2003

ROTFLMAO you know this winter weather has addled my brain (not that I have much left) but I love figs, when I saw the word fig I swear I could almost taste them.
Just disregar my earlier statement lol.

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Calalily Deep South Coastal, TX(Zone 10a) Mar 08, 2003

I thought that's what happened, lol. I found fresh figs while we were in Texas, they were delicious! I didn't think about keeping the seeds.

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Kell San Leandro, CA(Zone 9b) Mar 08, 2003

Try good goat's cheese on a ripe fig.........it is one of the real joys in life. And a sip of good French...OK forget the French........ champagne after is heavenly also!

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windsurffer (Zone 5a) Mar 08, 2003

I haven't been to store yet but will be checking to see if they have fresh figs. Calla I am so surprised that you don't have one already lordy knows you have just about everything else*giggle*.

Kell I have never had goat chesse but I might just give it a try.

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isom Mission BC, Canada(Zone 8b) Aug 09, 2006

My ficus bore fruit last year too for the first time - the weeping benjamin type. They're so tiny, they'd be easy to miss unless it's your own tree. Mine are so happy when I put them outside in the summer. I've got to get a good edible fig tree & grow it here for fresh figs. I have no idea what they taste like but I'm dying to find out.

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Kell San Leandro, CA(Zone 9b) Aug 24, 2006

Isom, just make sure the fig is very ripe, almost gushy, for unripe ones are not very good.

I just saw a variegated fig this last weekend with the cutest little figs. But I do not know if they are edible or not.

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