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Nero Di Terlizzi

I received a cutting of this variety from a grower in the Niagara area. I haven't found much info at all on the internet and none here on this forum going by the name Nero Di Terlizzi at least. I wonder if this fig goes by another name maybe? This the only link on the internet I can find where it is mentioned:

http://www.freshplaza.com/news_detail.asp?id=40828

I sent the link to the person and he said it looked very similar to this picture. He bought it in Toronto and was told it came from northern Italy. He says it's very winter hardy, large, long dark purple with pink interior and very sweet. He said he was told once it looked similar to a melanzana fig (eggplant in english).

Just curious if anyone's had any experience with this variety before?

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Did you look on the variety page http://figs4fun.com/Varieties.html bunch of figs there. and other names they may go by
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Tylerj, great fig. The city of Terlizzi is located 15 min. by bicycle, south-west from Molfetta province of Bari, Puglia, fig heaven. Take care, Sergio in South Jersey.
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Thanks for the info Sergio. Hopefully my cutting roots well and will be able to update this post with pictures of my own.
Tyler
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Looks like a REAL Brown Turkey to me....
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i love the ribs on this fig
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I agree with Marius. What you have is BT. I have one.


Jennifer
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Originally Posted by tylerj
I received a cutting of this variety from a grower in the Niagara area. I haven't found much info at all on the internet and none here on this forum going by the name Nero Di Terlizzi at least. I wonder if this fig goes by another name maybe? This the only link on the internet I can find where it is mentioned:

http://www.freshplaza.com/news_detail.asp?id=40828

I sent the link to the person and he said it looked very similar to this picture. He bought it in Toronto and was told it came from northern Italy. He says it's very winter hardy, large, long dark purple with pink interior and very sweet. He said he was told once it looked similar to a melanzana fig (eggplant in english).

Just curious if anyone's had any experience with this variety before?

Hello tylerj.
I was wondering if you have managed to get pictures of your
Nero De Terlizzi Yet.....fruiting Yet?....I have the chance to buy one here in the UK, so just wanted to compare please.
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Sorry Liza... no fruit yet... Hopefully next year.

Tyler
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I look forward to  the up date. Thank you
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@Tylerj: Hi, How about your Nero di Terlizzi fig tree this year?

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Hi Nina,

It didn't produce any figs this year so unfortunately no report to give :(

Though of all my 2 year or older potted plants the only other one the did not put out any figlets... and looked identical.. was my black mission. So it maybe be a renamed black mission.

Tyler
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The fig in Question is ,English Brown Turkey.
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Hi Herman,
are you saying Nero di Terlizzi is English Brown Turkey?

According to UCDavis, The English Brown Turkey is a synonym for Brown Turkey.

So is Nero di Terlizzi a Brown Turkey?
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I think it is called Grossa di Terlizzi. It's grown commercially in southern Italy.

http://aziendaagricolafurnirussi.it/fico-4-grossa_di_terlizzi.html
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English Brown Turkey is a distinct and genuine variety of fig.
All the other fig tree that are different looking compared to this one are not Brown turkey at all ,they are hybrids of or other varieties under the Brown Turkey name.
For Example :California Brown Turkey is not a brown Turkey but Genoa Black imported from Australia,and ,in Ca it was given the new name.
Others figs called Brown Turkey are in Fact ,Brunswick,and other are direct hybrids of English Brown Turkey grown from pollinated seeds in Turkey,California etc,hybrids that have as mother the English BT,and as father a caprifig male.
There could be as many as 3 dozen such hybrids.
Here is a genuine English Brown Turkey,getting ripe in my garden,in 2000.
Edit note:Due to climate change,the cultivar was not getting ripe properly after 2005,so it was discarded in 2012.
All in all a very superior beautiful cultivar in the right climate!(needs more Summer heat than NJ)

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Very Interesting Herman, Thank you...
I actually need to correct my comment, English Brown Turkey is NOT included in the synonym's list for all Brown Turkeys...
here's the list...
(sorry about the font size)


DFIC 17 

Ficus carica L. MORACEAE (fig)

Donated from: California, United States (Comment: Donated to NCGR, Davis.)
Maintained by the Natl. Germplasm Repository - Davis. NPGS received: 01-Jan-1982. Life form: Tree. Form received: Cutting.

Accession names and identifiers

Brown Turkey
Idtype: UNVERIFIED. 
Ashride Forcing
Idtype: UNVERIFIED. 
Blue
Idtype: UNVERIFIED. 
Brown Naples
Idtype: UNVERIFIED. 
Early Howick
Idtype: UNVERIFIED. 
Murrey
Idtype: UNVERIFIED. 
Fleur Rauge
Idtype: UNVERIFIED. 
Turkey
Idtype: UNVERIFIED. 
Ramsey
Idtype: UNVERIFIED. 
Lee's Perpetual
Idtype: UNVERIFIED. 
Blue Burgandy
Idtype: UNVERIFIED. 
Black Spanish
Idtype: UNVERIFIED. 
San Pedro
Idtype: UNVERIFIED. 
California Brown Turkey
Idtype: UNVERIFIED. 
Black Douro
Idtype: UNVERIFIED. 
Everbearing
Idtype: UNVERIFIED. 
Texas Everbearing
Idtype: UNVERIFIED. 
Harrison
Idtype: UNVERIFIED. 
Black San Pedro
Idtype: UNVERIFIED. 
Eastern Brown Turkey
Idtype: UNVERIFIED. 
Brown Italian
Idtype: UNVERIFIED. 
Turquie Brune
Idtype: UNVERIFIED. 
Brunswick
Idtype: UNVERIFIED. 
Walton
Idtype: UNVERIFIED. 
Small Blue
Idtype: UNVERIFIED. 
Italian Large Blue
Idtype: UNVERIFIED. 
Long Naples
Idtype: UNVERIFIED. 
Common Blue
Idtype: UNVERIFIED. 
DFIC 17
Idtype: SITE. 

Narrative

The above UNVERIFIED accession names were cited as synonyms in Fig Varieties: Hilgardia, Vol. 23, No. 11, 1955, p. 428, by Condit; in The Fig in Georgia, Georgia Experiment Station, Bull. 77, 1907, p. 91, by Starnes and Monroe; in Fig Growing in the South, USDA, Handbook 196, p. 5, by Krezdorn and Adriance; in Fig Culture in California, Circular 77, 1933, p. 11, by Condit; and in Ortho Book 'Citrus and Subtropical Fruit' Memo, 1985, by Claude Sweet. Info. on this variety from Sanders, Figs in Containers, Fruit Gardeners, California Rare Fruit Growers, Vol. 23, No.6, December 1991: Medium-to-large, elongated fruit with brownish maroon skin. Large open eye. Fine-grained, sweet, juicy, firm, meaty flesh. Excellent for jams, canning, drying, or eating fresh. Vigorous, small tree. Prune severely. Info. from Commercial Dried Fig Production in California, University of California, Leaflet 21051, p. 5, November 1978: A European variety, probably introduced into U.S. from England. It is not recommended for planting as a dried fig variety. Brown Turkey trees produce a few large breba figs that are utilized fresh. The second crop has medium to large fruits that are also shipped to the fresh market. The eye is fairly open and the fruit is subject to insect infestations and souring.

Edit: Interestingly enough, UCDavis don't even have English Brown Turkey in their list...
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Whatever it is I have that was sent to me as Nero Di Terlizzi looks identical to this plant...

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/fig/msg091800261302.html

The pictures in that thread are of Vern's Brown Turkey bought at OGW. Hopefully next year it will produce figs to confirm its identity.

Tyler
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I look forward to  the up date. Thank you



Hi, Liza !

Here is mine . Too early to tell !







Will show you picture when it will get ripe sometime between August and September  
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Tyler, from picture it looks more like my MORENA. If it is, its reliable and good productivity.
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