Dave, The branches are coming off the main stem at almost 90 degrees and they are very weak. Breba figs forming on the ends of the branches will pull the branches down early in the season, as will main crop figs later, but the new growth will go up. It's not a good idea to ID a fig tree without seeing the figs, but the unusual branch habit and leaves are consistent with Weeping Fig/Aldo/Corleone/Palermo Red. If this is the tree you have, it will produce good crops with moderate pruning - just cut back or remove older branches now and then and root prune. Weeping Fig bebas and main crop figs The Resulting Tree

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Carol, the university sold off land for housing. Much needed in this expanding city but there are other areas to build on. The Genetic garden was a resource for gardening. My husband and I were lucky to experience it in its heyday and to learn basic gardening skills as beginners 24 years ago. The trial beds were educational and we learnt about the need for feeding plants and how. We learnt about composting, too. The local rose society had its own trial field, tended by volunteers. I rescued other roses when it was abandoned, Katharina Zeimet, Rosa californica Plena, Alba Meidiland, now treasures in my garden. We had little time to dig up the roses or I would have dug up more varieties. An old photo of R. californica Plena, it's bigger now. P.S. My husband is looking over my shoulder: "How small it was then".