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Old 04-23-2008, 04:23 AM
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Does anyone have a fig tree? Or does anyone know about botany or genetics as it

applies to botany? I was just looking at my fig tree while I was watering it and I noticed that the leaves are different shapes. I was under the impression leaves on pretty much any tree come out pretty much uniform, but I counted three different shapes on my tree. Some are pretty much just broad flat leaves and some have a notch on the top on either side, the other variety had notches at the bottom as well as the top.

So my question is...
Anyone who has a fig tree, would you please inspect your leaves, purely as a curiosity interest.
I'm wondering if all fig trees are like this or if mine is a hybrid of some sort, maybe it's just a genetic mutation. Or maybe this is all perfectly normal in the realm of fig trees.

Thanks for your participation in my quest for useless knowledge. : )
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