Also, for anyone growing both... Is UCD Barnisotte and Durio's Barnisotte the same?
The description on Durio's site seems to agree that it is a late growing fig:
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barnisotte [nero / brogiotto nero] - This fig comes to us from Italy. It has large, late ripening, reddish black figs of better quality than those of 'Black Mission'. The rich, fairly sweet flesh is red-amber and of very good to excellent flavor. Unfortunately, the eye is medium sized and open. Very good fresh but poor when stewed as it breaks up when stirred. Needs heat for best taste. Well adapted to the South and Southwest. Fruit shape turbinate-pyriform sometimes oblique with a broad apex. Leaf has a cordate base and 5 lobes with the middle one being spatulate and the others latate.
Rich, I'll have to check the leaves on my Barnisotte (Durio) and VdS (from a member of this forum) against each other.