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The Greek owner said many years ago, his spanish friend gave him one tree by the name Col de Dame Blanc.   His tree is very healthy, about 25 ft tall, single 8-inch diameter trunk. The tree is in the ground at zone 7a for many years without winter protection. This tree is located in the shade and it does not receive much sun light. That is why it grow so tall to find the sun light. These figs start to ripen in mid September. The leaves and figs are similar to Col De Dame Noir, except these figs has green-yellow skins when ripe. The flavor is absolutely superb with sweet berry, crunchy, and jammy taste. The skins are little thick and chewy. However, he said that this year is not good for all of his fig trees because the bad spring weather and too much rain had caused the problems to his figs. Anyway I am asking the fig gurus out there to let me know if this tree is really a Col De Dame Blanc. Thank you.











































This fig was not fully ripe when I picked it. It would need a few more days, but the flavor was very good, jammy and sweet.









These 2 photos are Col De Dame Noir: 







This photo is Col De Dame Noir from other member:





These 2 photos are Col De Dame Blanc from other members:







This photo is Col De Dame Gris from other member:






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Tam


Nobody knows all details about all figs cultivars about possible more than a few hundreds out there,but in my experience ,yes you got a Col de Dame White ,a healthy variant right there in the pixes above.
It matches ,the black and grise I have to a tee,so how can I say otherwise.
Good for you you hit the Jackpot.
Now  slowly cuttings from this specimen should be grown all over the south,and replace Celeste,because it is way superior to anything grown in the south now except other Col de Dame,in fact all color of  this cultivar are superior to anything else and about equal to Madeira figs,tho not identical.

Edit note:It would be nice ,that in order to convince us ,even better that you hit the Jack pot,to post pixies of the mature mother trees,that way we all will put to rest doubts,as to the existence of these old trees.
Otherwise someone might think you propagated new trees from meristem of the old diseased trees,and ,out of the lab,the young plants are fig mosaic free.
And if the second situation is a fact,it is your business but it would be nice to know.
Here is a pix of my Col de Dame Grise 5 years old plant.
Can you show us your tree?

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Great pics, nice close up views of the leaves great for ID. Fruit looks amazing. CDDB and the others are so highly rated I can't wait til I find out for myself. My tree has a couple beginning to swell

Fruit, interior of fruit, and leaves look like my Col De Dame Blanc.  So does your description of texture and taste.

We've had the same issues with weather here.  It's rained all this past week, and off and on for the two weeks before that.   Our weather is supposed to dry out in a day or two, so I think most of my crop will be OK.   (I hope).

My three year old tree seems more tender to our harsh sun than others growing in the same row.   In fact, I'm glad you posted this.  I went out for another look  to compare with your pics, observed additional cracking of the bark, and got out the ol paint can.

(BTW) it is a healthy little tree, but not nearly as vigorous and fast growing as most of my others).

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Herman2: Thank you for your inputs on this tree. I am very happy to find out that this tree is the Col De Dame Blanc. The mother tree fell down a few day ago and I went there to take a few photos of that tree. If you look at the upper most photo, you see the trunk and main branches of that tree in right hand of the photo. I told the owner to wait until the fall before I help him to replant his tree and he said fine. There will be a lot of cuttings to that tree in order to replant it.  Here is the photo of the trunk of the mother tree.



Barry and Dave: Thank you for your inputs also.


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Tam

This is really exciting!

I think it is strange that it fell over, maybe the soil is too wet because the AC unit is dripping condensation?

Tam, I would be happy to come over and help you guys replant the tree!  Just give me a call! :)

Tam,
Great find. If possible when you help rework the tree this fall I would love to obtain some cuttings. I would like to see how it does in northwest Georgia. Either way I appreciate your posting of pictures and information.

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hoosiierbanana: The tree root distributions were out of balance because it was planted too close to the wall and because the tree is so tall at least 25 ft height. Moreover, the tree has too many figs which caused too much load on the tree. There was no A/C condensation around the tree and that A/C does not produce any condensation. Thank you.

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Steve: That is very nice of you. I will let you know if we need another helper. Thank you.

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Tam

Be happy to help start it in SC....

Thanks Tam:
Indeed the Fallen tree is Col de Dame looking at the leaves of the small replacement trunks that grew at base.
Yes it is planted too close ,to foundation,way too close.
And yes ,planting on the north side of house will make the tree grow very tall,trying to get to the sun.
I have seen a tree like that in Mount Laurse NJ,another supertasty cultivar,Vasilika Sika a greek cultivar,and yes it grew taller than the A frame house.
Everything is proper,I hope you replant that tree in a better location,in full sun.

OK Tam, that makes perfect sense now that I have calmed down a bit ; ) I still feel very excited though!

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Thank you to everyone for the inputs on this tree.

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I will take more full photos of that tree when I come there again.

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Tam

Hi Tam

I am sure you are experienced in fig tree transplanting so with all respect I will send you these informative links just to make sure you do a great job with this beautiful tree!

http://www.gardenguides.com/75181-transplant-fig-tree.html

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/fig/msg072145021296.html

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/fig/msg022159133602.html

Good luck and keep us posted!!

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rafaelissimmo: Thank you very much for the helpful information.

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Tam

Nice healthy tree.

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Here's a snapshot of my Col de dame received this year from UCD. I received three cuttings and planted one in the ground by cutting the bottom of my container. I hooked it up to a drip irrigation line giving it 20 minutes a day on a 2 gallon head. I did not want to keep all of them in pots. From the beginning I knew that CDDB is going to be one of my trees in the ground.

Today I was able to sample my first Col de Dame Blanc ever. Having heard about it and read about it, but after tasting it, I must say that so far this one is on top of my list of must have fig trees .



 

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Sas: Thank you for posting your photos.

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Hi! Everyone,

Today I stopped my friend's house to take more photos of the Col De Dame Blanc tree. While taking the photos, I saw one nearly ripened fig, so I picked it also. It had sweet and jammy taste even though it was not fully ripe yet. Hope you all like the photos. By the way, I measured the height of that tree and it is 25 ft tall. Thank you for watching. 







































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  • Sas

Thank You for those lovely pictures. Make sure that those roots are not exposed until the tree is totally dormant. I've read it somewhere that root exposure when the tree is active would result
in 100% death for the tree.

 

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Sas: Thank you for letting me know that. I will check the roots when I come there the next time.

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Hi! Everyone,

I stopped by yesterday afternoon to check the tree. The owner picked all the ripened figs. I saw a few nearly ripened ones on the tree, but they were split at their eyes. Can someone please let me know if the Col De Dame Blanc figs do split if there is too much moisture in the air? Thank you for watching and here are the 2 photos:





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Here's a snapshot of my first year Col de Dame Blanc from UCD. As of today I only had one ripe fig.

The first two photos are of the one that went in the ground. The third is of Col de Dame number two in pot. This tree is a fast grower for sure.

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