I adopted a new baby Colar d'Albatera. Looks pretty. I hope you don't mind me sharing your photo. I will have my own soon. I look foward to this rare variant from Spain.

Copy right belongs to respected member. (Edit: pic belongs to members friend)
This is only to display fruits.

Thank you

Congrats. This variant is good grower for me.

Also, I need to specify something here: Jennifer as I had mentioned to you in our emails, this was NOT my photo- it was sent to me by a good friend of mine and I shared it with you. Only one of my two plants of this variant set fruits, but I removed them. That is why there was not any photo of its fruit posted on my listing.

Navid.

Nice looking" dream" fig...

This is the same as the variety they call Colar that is used for brebas in Spain right?

Yes its the same.  The cracking is awesome on the skin.

Here's the colar, but I don't think it's the same as abicou.

I am also growing the Baud's Abicou as well. IMO the Colar d' Albeatera, Abacou and Abicou all are the same fig with different names. The reasoning is, both of my plants  (Abacou from Baud and the one from my friend from Spain), both HAVE the same leaf pattern and same vigor in growth. Both are being grown in containers right beside each other.

Jennifer can I email you the photos of my two plants, so you can post them in your thread? Cropping them down to 1 MB not working well for me.


Navid.

Looks great guys :) Thanks for sharing.

The pic in the first post... those are eggplant though right? That's some big ol purple fruit.

Great looking fig indeed.

From Brugmansia-Quebec

Syn.: Abicou, Aubicout, Grosse Violette Longue, Negrette de Proquerolles, San Pedro Noire, San Piero

Very old variety described since 1690.
*Black fig, red flesh*
This variety produces 2 crops.

I only ask as I purchased a tree of Colar from Baud and I have seen on Galgonis website the variety colar d'albatera as well and in his list he says that Colar comes from Albatera so I was thinking it was the same fig but couldn't pin it down since in the list of Catalan figs he lists Colar but not Colar d'Albatera.  I will look forward to showing pictures of the leaves later on and maybe fruits this year (probably not) but more likely next year.

Jennifer, emailed you the photos.

Navid.

making me hungry, i want figs, why do they have to go dormant.

Uploaded, babies are online. Navid

Drum roll please.

Beautiful pictures!

Navid here is a link for simple directions to resize http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/Simple-Resize-Picture-6098502

MichaelTucson explained it to me in another post so I started this thread for ease of searching.  It is so easy!!  Do it a few times to get the hang of it.

great looking fig. does anyone know how it tastes?

"These are not the figs you are looking for"

Hey Jen you might want to narrow down your 'wishlist' a whew bit. Sr Pons only has about 1000+ and locates new ones every year.

Just a suggestion. LOL

I'm trying to see if colar de albatera is the same as abicou, so I researched Pierre baud's book. Here's what he says:
This variety is very old, described for the first time in 1690 and cultivated under different names in many countries. In Italy San piero, corbo, piombinese, arbicone. In Spain: pacuecas, albacor. In England and California black Portugal, black San Pedro, warren's brown turkey. In Japan Masui dauphine.

Here's a picture of his book on abicou.


Aren't figs fun?

tim, may the fig be with you :)

The other thing as well:

Both Baud and Sr Pons have both Colar ( not necessarily d'albetera) listed.  But Baud has listed Abicou seperately and Pons has Albacor listed seperatedly from Colar. Food for thought.