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Chimera Family-Panache n Reverse Figs

Here some panache figs just starting to plump and a ripe reverse on same tree.
One main branch is reverse while other main is normal.

Martin how old is your tree? Did you jump start it early? How do they taste?

Martin please tell me you atleast attempted to eat it lol.

Hi Celt,
plant is in second season here in picture from last season 2010 just transplanted into bigger pot and picture from this season.

I only ever taste 1 fig so far the (reverse type) but it was decent with faint berry taste.
I will get to taste the variegated one soon from the other main branch.

Yes i do the fig shuffle in spring , this spring shuffle was several weeks behind do to nasty spring weather.

As plant matures it will bear a little sooner as it adjust its crop set.

Madeira plant and a few small ones i held back from shuffle this spring.

Yes Nelson i ate it.
The chimera family such as panache and i feel jolly tiger intrique me as i feel there in a class of there own such as the readings here. 
I purchase it because its figs are very different looking.
Now to see how it will perform and taste in my climate as it matures .

The readings i came across that describe both i believe

Chimeras:Chimeras, presumably originating from somatic mutations, are not common in fig varieties. The few reported involve variegations in leaf or fruit. At least two accounts of fig chimeras have been published, the first by J. L. Collins (1919) and the second by Condit (1928a). Collins illustrated and described a sectorial chimera of a Lob Injir fig which differed from other chimeras "in that the cell in which the change took place was not in the developing of young fruit itself, but in a cell of the young shoot on which the fruit grew. A few of the leaves growing on the tree which produced the fig-chimera were characterized by white areas or sections."

Condit reported a still more striking chimera in an Adriatic fig (fig. 18) which showed one third of the surface to be green and two thirds purple, with this dark sector divided by a narrow ribbon of green. The bands of light and dark color persisted when the fruit became dry. Another Adriatic tree had one twig which produced dark colored figs instead of the normal green fruit. One large branch in a Lob Injir tree at Reedley, California, bore both albino and variegated leaves year after year, although the fruit showed only faint indications of variegations. None of these chimeras has been saved by propagation.

The most striking fig chimera yet reported is that exhibited by the French variety Panache and described by various horticultural writers. (See Condit, 1928a.) The immature fruits are beautifully striped with bands of green and yellow (fig. 18) which gradually become a sulphur to golden yellow as the figs mature. The branches of the Panache tree also show variegation during the first year\'s growth, but the leaves are of a normal green. Seeds of Panache from open-pollinated flowers did not produce any progeny with variegated fruits or twigs.





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