@joeeilias...how bizarre!  Please tell us you happen to also have these fig trees??  

wow...unbelievable..just finnished reading the whole thread. love this story...then joeelias adds to the story. by the way..hey joe..welcome to figs4fun..i may be new to figs..but i can see how they become part of your family and life..thanks for the story saxonfig..great read..good health
                                                                                         luke

Welcome to the forum Joe. It's great that you were able to add to the story and catch up with Bill, how unusual.
"gene"

A huge welcome to the forum Joe! I hope you enjoy the forum and stick around awhile ;) . 

I was very suprised to get a PM from you. Maybe I shouldn't be too suprised though since I've learned that the Elias's are part of a very large family. Guessing that somebody in the family was bound to find this forum eventually :-) !

You're uncle has told me about how family members have carried this fig tree to various parts of the country with them. I spoke with him on Monday and he again mentioned how one family member grows this one in southern Arkansas and it grows to "tree size" in the slightly warmer climate.

He has also shared this tree with a few other folks around the Murray area. While I was visiting him on Monday, a local doctor stopped by to see if he had a few figs to spare for making fig jam. This doctor also has this tree but I guess he was planning to make alot of fig jam :) . Of course your uncle D didn't hesitate to share figs with him.

Here are a few that he shared with me a couple weeks ago. They tasted even better than last year. Very good figs! Now that I've tasted a few other varieties to compare these to, these are still my favorite so far.  

Guess the vanishing photo thing is still here. When I checked this thread I didn't see the pics in my previous post. Hope they can be seen now.

I can see that wonderful pile of figs. Great picture.

Hey Alan,

The fruit look very similar. The leaves seem to deviate just a bit but it could still be the same tree or very closely related.

The fruit that were shared with me this summer from the Haikel tree were so good. Very sweet with alot of flavor. They had some richness to them as well.

My tree produced several fruit but they were too late. Looking forward to picking some of these from my own tree next season.

The flavor seems to be complex and a little hard to describe. Very tastey, sweet, juicey, but not watery. They sometimes reminded me of the flavor of peaches but not every fruit was the same. The flavor also reminds me of another fruit that I just can't yet place. Simply put......they were real good :-).