Hi,

I have two fig trees in my yard.  The first one is supposed to be a Brown Turkey - I ordered it from a nursery as such - I'm wondering if it really is.  I'm very happy with it, whatever it is, but am just curious.  It was from a bare root stock plant about 4 years ago and is now about 15 feet tall.  It produces small to medium purply brown very sweet figs with usually a closed eye.  No breba crop to speak of, but a heavy main crop around the first week of July.  I am in Columbia, SC. 

The second fig tree, I really need help with.  It came from an old tree in my Mom's yard.  We have never known the variety.  The figs are definately different from my first tree (bt?).  We planted this one about 3 years ago - it was from a small plant growing under my Mom's tree (I think where a branch got buried and rooted - do figs do that?).  Anyway it was a small plant in a pot when we planted it and is now about 8 feet tall.  It produces a few brebas and then a main crop beginning around last week of July.  My Mom's tree makes two crops but this one doesn't yet.  The figs are larger than my first tree (bt?), kind of triangular with a thick base, usually an open eye, a thick skin, and pinkish flesh.  They are not as sweet as the figs from my first tree (bt?), and have a distinctive stronger flavor.  I believe the mother tree was planted in the late 60's or early 70's as that is when the house was built - we moved in 76, so it was definately a full grown producing tree by that point.  Don't know if that will help with narrowing down the variety. Oh and the eye on this one looks very much like the eye on the fig second from the right in the picture above.  Ants will go in there if you don't pick them in time. 

Here is a link to some photos of the fruit and leaves of the two trees. 

https://picasaweb.google.com/shanc21/Figs?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCKiIrqux4KPkoQE&feat=directlink

Thanks for any help!!

Shannon

Fig 1-Celeste

Fig 2- Probably BT

BT are a medium large fig

I think Dominick got it.

Thanks y'all.  After doing some research I can totally see my first tree as being a Celeste.  Everything fits with information of the internet about Celeste, except that it was sold to me as a Brown Turkey.  Is it common for fig plants to be mislabeled when sold?

I am still not sure about my second plant.  It doesn't match up quite up as strongly with the info on the internet about Brown Turkey.  But it could be.  I will keep searching.  To me the two most distinctive things about this fig is the triangular shape and the distinctive, but not overly sweet flavor.  The info for Brown Turkey often say it is sweet and the pictures I see are often quite rounded - which is not really like mine.  But maybe there is just a lot of variation in Brown Turkey? 

I agree with Dom.  He nailed it.

A lot of people/nurseries are ignorant, calling Celeste "Brown Turkey".  This isn't a malicious statement on my part, I mean "ignorant" as in "they just don't know", and it's fine, but man does it cause a lot of unfortunate confusion and problems in our hobby/obsession.   Brown Turkey generally isn't brown in color (Celeste often is).  Brown Turkey usually has 5-lobed leaf, Celeste varies between either 3-5 lobes (there are a lot of Celeste "variants").  Skin cracking when perfectly ripe is a common trait of Celeste.  Either/both can have voids inside the fruit.

Celeste doesn't have a void space in the middle of the fig.

See?  You may never know!

Suzi

Geez! From Jon's site:

Ahem- From my tree last year: