Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_ficus_carica
Common Fig
Ficus carica
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About Common Fig
Common Fig (Ficus carica) is a post-contact introduced tree documented on Kauaʻi through historical forestry planting records. The reviewed records do not establish present survival. Native to the eastern Mediterranean through Central Asia and the western Himalaya in temperate woodland and rocky sites. A 1980 forestry ledger documents Kauaʻi planting in 1941; it does not establish current survival, reproduction, or naturalization.
Kauaʻi evidence
Taxonomic identity, tree form, diagnostic morphology and island occurrence use the linked reviewed sources. Historical planting, cultivation, naturalization and invasive status are separate. Generated imagery is not occurrence evidence. The 1918–1959 Kauaʻi reforestation working register records 15 plants under Ficus carica across 1 entries dated 1941. These are recorded planting quantities, not counts of surviving trees, and they do not by themselves establish current persistence, naturalization, or ecological impact. Source: Kauaʻi Reforestation Plantings 1918–1959 working register (user-supplied; reconciled 6 October 2026).
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Ficus carica
- Common names
- Common Fig
- Other names
- Ficus carica · Common fig
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Introduced
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-06
- Evidence limits
- Current survival on Kauaʻi, number of trees, occupied habitat, flowering or fruiting, recruitment, population trend, and ecological effects are all unconfirmed; no naturalization or invasive severity is inferred from the historical planting record.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- Reproductive biology varies among cultivated fig forms; some require a specific fig wasp while others can set fruit without pollination. The historical Kauaʻi record does not identify the planted form, pollinator presence, fruit set, or recruitment.
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Deciduous shrub or small tree
Threats and conservation
- Monitoring
- Not yet assessed
- Data gaps
- Current population extent and trajectory · Additional species-specific ecological and conservation sources
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not yet assessed
- Seasonal description
- Common Fig (Ficus carica) is a post-contact introduced tree documented on Kauaʻi through historical forestry planting records. The reviewed records do not establish present survival. Native to the eastern Mediterranean through Central Asia and the western Himalaya in temperate woodland and rocky sites. A 1980 forestry ledger documents Kauaʻi planting in 1941; it does not establish current survival, reproduction, or naturalization.