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The Brown Turkey Fig Tree is an old time favorite in the southeast for fresh eating and canning whole. The medium sized, bell shaped fruits are purplish-brown with light pink flesh. This small productive tree will produce delicious sweet figs in summer and usually a secondary crop in early Fall. Old Brown Turkey Fig Trees have survived single digit temperatures from time to time in southern Georgia. The brown turkey fig supposedly was named because turkeys like to eat them. Regardless, it is a favorite fig of the South, but is also one of the winter hardy figs. The fruit has a small eye and does not tend to swell and burst if the weather is wet when the figs are ripening.

• Hybrid or Heirloom? Is this a hybrid or a heirloom variety? ? Patented? Is this possibly a patented variety? ?
• Lifecycle The lifecycle that this plant exhibits. ? Category The basic category that this plant belongs to. Fruit
• Hardiness How frost hardy this plant is. Hardy Country of Origin Where this plant originated from.
• Mature Height How tall the plant will be when it grows up. 762.0 cm / 297.18" Mature Spread How wide the plant will be when it grows up. 457.0 cm / 178.23"
• Bloom Time When this plant usually blooms. Mid Summer Harvest Time When this plant is usually harvested. Late Summer

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Sowing and Germinating Instructions

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Planting Out / Transplanting Instructions

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When should I start sowing and growing?

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Etymology

Folklore

The brown turkey fig supposedly was named because turkeys like to eat them. Figs in general: The edible fig is one of the first plants that were cultivated by humans. Nine subfossil figs of a parthenocarpic type dating to about 9400–9200 BC were found in the early Neolithic village Gilgal I (in the Jordan Valley, 13 km north of Jericho). The find predates the domestication of wheat, barley and legumes, and may thus be the first known instance of agriculture. It is proposed that they may have been planted and cultivated intentionally, one thousand years before the next crops were domesticated (wheat and rye).

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