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Can anyone help identify my fig variety?

Hello Group,

I'm brand new to the forum and hardly a fig expert. I'd be really grateful if anyone can identify the variety of my fig tree. It was purchased at a garden shop (about 2 feet tall). It's been growing about 10 years in my rural Central Florida yard, is about 10 feet tall now, bears twice a year and the figs have a thin skin with a medium pinkish/orange color inside. Sorry I don't have a photo of a cut fig.

Searching the varieties has me more confused than ever. So many of them look similar to mine, but I know it can only be one of them.

Thanks for any help.

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Originally Posted by artgal
Hello Group,

I'm brand new to the forum and hardly a fig expert. I'd be really grateful if anyone can identify the variety of my fig tree. It was purchased at a garden shop (about 2 feet tall). It's been growing about 10 years in my rural Central Florida yard, is about 10 feet tall now, bears twice a year and the figs have a thin skin with a medium pinkish/orange color inside. Sorry I don't have a photo of a cut fig.

Searching the varieties has me more confused than ever. So many of them look similar to mine, but I know it can only be one of them.

Thanks for any help.

bowl-of-figs.jpg 
fig_bunch_sm.jpg
 
fig_leaves_sm.jpg

after doing a quick look at which figs nay have been commonly sold in your area. Possibly a magnolia type fig.

AND WELCOME TO THE FORUM
RICHIE FROM LOUISIANA
reading on the information that lsu suppies about magnolia. It is a bronze fig with redish stripes and amber pulp.

I would say some sort of a Celeste.

Thanks Calvin - I had made a note on Celeste, being one that looks very similar to mine. I guess I'm looking in the right direction.

Richie - That's a possibility. Both the color and the leaf shape are a close match.
Thanks for your help.

Celeste. Uncommon that it has Breba, though.

Not Magnolia/Brunswick, leaf is wrong, as is the fig.  The Magnolia/Brunswick is a much larger fig with a different color and shape. Most likely a Celeste.

An awesome Celeste! Welcome to the forum.

Thanks Bill, Danny and Chris. I guess the consensus is Celeste.
Much appreciation to everyone for your help. Glad I found this great forum.

Celeste, for sure

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