Hello, Having researched fig sites for the past few years, I am not immediately aware of a website that lists more than just a few diseases and pictures of the diseases. I may have missed it if there is one. I have however, found documents that list several diseases in one spot. I have pasted a few links that might help since they list several diseases. You will have to do a search to find a picture. Ingevald 2006 Florida Plant Disease Management Guide: Fig (Ficus carica) by Ronald D. French-Monar and Pamela D. Roberts from University of Florida Extension - http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/PG010 Diseases of Fig by Themis J. Michailides - University of California, Kearney Agricultural Center. This is chapter 11(p. 253 in the book ÂDiseases of Tropical Fruit Crops edited by R.C. Ploetz. Saw it on Google Books but not all the pages are available. Figs - Texas Plant Disease Handbook from Texas A&M University http://plantpathology.tamu.edu/texlab/Fruit/Fig/fmenu.asp

If your location is Chapel Hill, NC (assuming your 'zone' listing is really your zip code), then your fig tree likely was frozen back and damaged by the hard winter this year. Give it some time, see how it bounces back. Later in the season, maybe early summer, prune out what wood is really dead. And as noted above some backup cuttings, so you can replant or have more trees would not be a bad idea.

I live in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as well. Our elevation is about 5500 ft. I live in the valley close to the Rio Grande river. It gets colder here than most places in the city during the winter. I had two five foot fig trees freeze to the ground as well. As I recall, we had several exceptionally cold days in December with temps into the single digits. Ironically, my trees are leafing from the ground level as well. So it sounds like we experienced similar conditions. I know of several folks in Albuquerque who had well-established fig trees die completely with no recovery whatsoever. It also depends on the variety of the tree.

Claire, I would suggest you post these questions in the house plant section as the fig forum is for edible figs. They are very good folks over there and I bet they can help you. Good luck.