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Fico Rubado

The first year for Fico Rubado thanks to Sergio. An excellent rich tasting fig when fully ripe.
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Tree and fruit look great, thanks for sharing the pictures.

Very nice looking fig!

Fico Rubado slang for rubato (means (fig) stolen in Italian).  Stolen fig from where?..haha

<edit> just checked an Italian website and this variety is also known as Fico del Quore (fig of the heart).
I am guessing the rubado name came when they found out it needs a long season to ripen. 
It hangs for a couple months while it ripens very slowly so if your season is not long enough the dream of this delicious fig is stolen from you.LOL

Pino, I think you got it! LOL
Actually it did not take any longer than other figs to ripen however, the donor informed me to wait until it was very, very ripe until eating it. It is reputed to be a late fig. There are figs on this tree that won't ripen this season.

The inside looks delicious. Thanks for sharing.

From Figs4Fun varietal page: Cuore (See Bordeaux)

Description :

Bordeaux is a French region which grows many varieties of figs. Condit's Bordeaux is usually and appropriately called Negronne in Bordeaux (after the town of Negronne which is apparently its place of origin). Giorgio Gallesio coined the Cuore, which means "heart-shaped," in 1817 for the fig already known as Rubado in Liguria.

BUT: We don't known if this is the same Rubado.

Dale, I agree with you. We don't know if it's the real one. I can only go by what the donor informed me. 

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