High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Common fig is a large, deciduous shrub or small tree native to southwest Asia and the eastern Mediterranean region. It grows to a height of 6.9 10 metres (23 33 ft) tall, with smooth grey bark. The leaves are 12 25 centimetres (4.7 9.8 in) long and 10 18 centimetres (3.9 7.1 in) across, and deeply lobed with three or five lobes. The fruit is 3 5 centimetres (1.2 2.0 in) long, with a green skin, sometimes ripening towards purple or brown. The sap of the fig's green parts is an irritant to human skin. The Common Fig is widely grown for its edible fruit throughout its natural range in the Mediterranean region, Iran and northern India, and also in other areas of the world with a similar climate, including Louisiana, California, Oregon, Texas, South Carolina, and Washington in the United States, Nuevo León and Coahuila in northeastern Mexico, as well as Australia, Chile, and South Africa. Figs can also be found in continental climate with hot summer, as far north as Hungary, and can be picked twice or thrice per year.