Once more she surprised me with this old fig
I was probably 8 or 10 years old when given by the hand of our common grand dad, I ate one Lingelo fig
Lost for many years, Aurora managed to find a tree somewhere which gave a few fruit this season.
It's a Common fig of excellent qualities.

Francisco

Pretty fig with memorable moment Fransisco.is it need caprification to ripen fruit?how about the taste ,can you compare to negronne ?i had a negronne tree 6 months age with about 10 figs embrio ,sized 2 cm .need to few month more to ripen.
Thank you for sharing lampo...

Asep,

Thank you for looking at my post.

Lingelo does not need caprification to bear fruit. It is a Common fig,  fully parthenocarpic.
As regards to the comparison with Negronne, I cannot tell because this black fig is not grown here so far.
Lingelo is very juicy, sweet and flavored.

Francisco

Good Morning Francisco,
Your pictures are always so lovely and have the ability to make me want to eat whatever is in them. Are you a professional photographer?
Thank you as always,
Tami

Good Morning Tami,

Thank you for commenting. I have to say no. I am not a professional photographer.

Like you, I simply like figs!

I use a cheap digital LUMIX - 10X camera , have no studio, my stage and set up 'tools' are:

-a wooden round bench, wife uses when in need of more comfort to skin potatoes !
-her preferred white handle knife for the cutaways (don't tell her..)
-kitchen paper towels,..
-No artificial light neither flash, nor dark backgrounds,  just plain Sun light preferably near sunset and
-the FIGS at my ideal maturity stages

cheers
Francisco

Great story. Great photos.

Good to hear lampo...so lingelo can grow every where without fig wasp present like in tropical climate

I love that you and your cousin Aurora are finding and propagating so many of the heirloom varieties . Too many heirlooms are lost forever. Happy to hear Lingelo a great one too!

Thank you all for looking at this Lingelo fig and commenting.
I hope Aurora will manage to find a couple of cuttings for me, so a year from now I may be looking at at least one well rooted old fig.

I did not elaborate on the details of its sweetness, taste and flavors, but I may say that in a good deal of respects it is very close to Violeta ! So, it is very good.

Asep, I believe it can grow over there although it probably do not feel at ease with excessive humidity
The fig shown on this thread has never seen artificial irrigation..Just gets rain mostly in winter and spring
and not much ( it goes well on semi-desertic environment)

Francisco

Great looking fig Francisco I love figs that have that green /bluish tint to it reminds of a paratjal fig to some extent.

Thanks for posting
Nelson

Francisco, I look forward to ordering your book one day! :)

Thank you Nelson, Harvey

Hope to have an opportunity to see and take additional pictures of this fig through ripening.
Nelson, check that 1882 report, you see this variety briefly described there

Harvey, do you believe the Port.figs deserve a book ?
I will think it over...

There is an ongoing  project, basically  trying to bring to light, old and very old interesting varieties of figs, long forgotten. Lingelo is certainly one of them.

Francisco