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Calabria (Cucchiano) White

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This is one of the figs I used to eat as a child growing up in Calabria. By some serendipitous maneuvering I obtained cuttings and it is now producing figs here in Tallahassee. I remember them as huge and sweet. They were great drying figs. I am sure that this is a known cultivar but have no idea what it is called here.

So far, the figs are smaller than I remember them and not as sweet. It may be that it's the first year that it is producing, or it could be the difference in weather or it could be my memory.

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Sure makes a lot of figs and they look good.

 Nothing is sweeter than nostalgia.  My husband was born 1941,Italy.  it was the hard times, but he remembers after school was bread and oil or olives, but some times he had figs and they tasted like sin in heaven.
PS  My whites dont look lively [image]  but the reds are vigorous! 
I wish your trees will mature with figs as delicious as you remember them. 

Looks awesome thanks for posting its story!

It looks really productive - nearly every node has a fig!

great..... to have a fig that you grew up with

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