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Oct 7, 2020 7:10 PM CST
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Greetings friends
Can anyone help identify this growth?
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Oct 8, 2020 12:51 AM CST

That's a common fig (Ficus carica), the ordinary one whose fruits (technically a syconium) you can eat.
Common figs are far more weather-resistant than generally thought and several cultivars developed in France and Italy have good cold and moist soil tolerance and can even be grown north of the Alps in some areas.

If that fig is growing wild it was dispersed by birds: seedlings are extremely shade resistant so they will grow pretty much everywhere. Figs rarely stay true from seed (they are usually propagated by cuttings) so it's kinda hard to figure out what the parent was.
If not, it's kinda hard to know what cultivar we are dealing with here without pictures of the figs themselves and it may be a bit late for that.
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