Asimina triloba?

[charlie]

Anyone in the UK getting it to fruit? Thinking of removing one of the two remaining Figs from the fruit cage as it doesnt fruit (some fancy yellow striped variety) and replacing it with one of these.

[Chad]

In Trees and Shrubs Online they comment, under a picture of one against a wall in The Oxford Botanic Garden that it 'needs all the summer heat it can get to succeed in the UK'.

You'd be pushing your luck with our summer temperatures in Cornwall.

I think they are self incompatible as well, so you'd need to grow two different ones to get fruit.

Chad

[charlie]

Thought that may be the case - shame

[AndyC]

Charlie, you are welcome to a 'Little Miss Figgy' plant. My plant (two years in the ground) has produced a good number of ripening fruits and a few clones from self layering.

[Chad]

Caution with Little Miss Figgy. An excelent fig, but how 'dwarf' it is is moot. Follow the link above.

Chad

[AndyC]

Interesting article Chad, thanks. I imagine 'Little Miss Figgy' may stay quite small if grown in a pot, but it in the ground I have found it to be a fast grower and now is about 2.5M high and wide.
I am quite happy about it's size as it helps to hide the neighbours house which has recently been painted the most horrendous shade of pink.

[Jeff Nonya]

This grower in The Netherlands has pre-orders for fruit available, with expected shipping in November: https://www.kwekerij-asimina.nl/. So successful fruit set must be possible it in our climate.
Personally I haven't even had much luck getting the plants themselves to grow. I planted two named varieties a year or three ago. One is still alive, but is only this year really starting to look healthy, the other has been declining ever since planting it out and it finally died this spring. I bought a small "sunflower" to replace the dead specimen which I'll plant out in the fall and hope for the best again.

[Andrew in Germany]

for what it's worth, I've been growing 3 trees for a few years. I say 'for what it's worth' because my summers are hotter and drier than in most of the UK, so some of my success will be down to that.
Nonetheless, 'Tropical Treat' and 'Prolific' are a few years old and 2 years in the ground, they stand at about 2 meters tall. The 3rd is a tree that I grew from a seed and about 8 years old. It's now a very thick and bushy tree at about 1 meter high and just as wide. It's flowered for several years now but hasn't had the pollinators to get it into fruit. The trick is to get trees that are all in flower at the same time. Prolific apparently, has a long flowering period so I've got my hopes that I'll enjoy the fruits in the next few years. I've also read that often apples and pears in flower at the same time could act as pollinators.
Wish I had more to report, they are however very winter hardy.