I received a fruit tree order, and noticed that one was a "biblical fig", what is different about this one compared to the Chicago fig since both are hardy?
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1Maybe a Smyrna fig? Which needs a cross-polinator. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_fig#Modern – Polypipe Wrangler Sep 06 '20 at 00:12
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those aren't hardy to zone 5ish – black thumb Sep 06 '20 at 01:08
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Nothing so far as I am aware; biblical fig seems to refer to common fig, Ficus carica, (of which there are several varieties) see here https://ww2.odu.edu/~lmusselm/plant/bible/commonfig.php. Quite why your supplier labelled it 'biblical fig' is a bit of a curiousity, unless that plant is not any particular variety of Ficus carica.
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