Don't laugh, but what color is ...

[ah-soy]

A fig? I've never seen one and am testing Fig Lychee from NG...I colored it a deep plum but now am wondering if I'm off base

[Ry Creek Candles]

I did that one time with a scent from G/L Chloris Rose, I made it a pale pink and then did my research, the rose was was really yellow. but I have left it pink because a lot of older ladies like that color for their baathroom. bathroom.

[jipow]

Hope this helps.

Description

The fig is a tree of small dimensions, 10 to 30 ft (3-9 m) high, with numerous spreading branches and a trunk rarely more than 7 in (17.5 cm) in diameter. It contains copious milky latex. The root system is typically shallow and spreading, sometimes covering 50 ft (15 m) of ground, but in permeable soil some of the roots may descend to 20 ft (6 m). The deciduous leaves are palmate, deeply divided into 3 to 7 main lobes, these more shallowly lobed and irregularly toothed on the margins. The blade is up to 10 in (25 cm) in length and width, fairly thick, rough on the upper surface, softly hairy on the underside. What is commonly accepted as a "fruit" is technically a synconium, that is, a fleshy, hollow receptacle with a small opening at the apex partly closed by small scales. It may be obovoid, turbinate, or pear-shaped, 1 to 4 in (2.5-10 cm) long, and varies in color from yellowish-green to coppery, bronze, or dark-purple. Tiny flowers are massed on the inside wall. In the case of the common fig discussed here, the flowers are all female and need no pollination. There are 3 other types, the ''Caprifig'' which has male and female flowers requiring visits by a tiny wasp, Blastophaga grossorum; the "Smyrna" fig, needing crosspollination by Caprifigs in order to develop normally; and the "San Pedro" fig which is intermediate, its first crop independent like the common fig, its second crop dependent on pollination. The skin of the fig is thin and tender, the fleshy wall is whitish, pale-yellow, or amber, or more or less pink, rose, red or purple; juicy and sweet when ripe, gummy with latex when unripe. Seeds may be large, medium, small or minute and range in number from 30 to 1,600 per fruit

[wczirr]

That sounds pretty close to me....but found this on a farm site;

<<<How to know when a fig is ripe</B>

Color - Figs come in all colors from yellow, brown, red to purple, black and others! So you need to know what color the ripe fig is. The most commonly grown figs, Brown Turkey and Celeste are a golden yellow as shown at left when ripe.>>>

hope that helps

wendi

(http://www.pickyourown.org/figs.htm was the website)

[bugtussle]

We grow figs and they are greenish-gold when ripe and are delicious. The inside is a beautiful rust-burgandy color. Carole

[ah-soy]

Thanks everybody...looks like the dark plum color might work, but I could go with other colors too!

[Violetsexoticcandles]

I grew up in Hawaii and the fruit of the fig trees we harvested would end up brown after we let them dry, but when unripe, they were a golden color. I think it would be good to think of a golden brown when coloring this scent... just my two cents.

Oh and lychees (yum by the way, I wish I could EAT one) are white/nearly opaque on the inside with a thin red shell. I would love to have a lychee scent, but that would most assuredly lead to my being homesick... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lychee

Vi