Today I stopped back at the local farmers market in Fall River, MA. Fall River has a very large population of Portuguese and I was anxious to see if there were any trees for sale.
I ended up talking with a woman who's family has sent her fig cuttings from Portugal for many years. I was amazed that they made it through the US Postal Service without any issue, but apparently they have a "system" and I'll not elaborate on it as I know its illegal.
She told me her family has had the tree in Portugal for 40+ years and this is the black fig. She classified the figs as black, white, or pink. White being a green fig with a tan interior, and a pink being green or black with a pinkish color interior. She has no idea about actual variety names, but did tell me the black one has "honey" that comes out and the fig tastes like sugar. It was tough to pass up a tree with that description so I took it home after giving her the asking price and is now growing along with the rest of the trees in the greenhouse. Hopefully I will get to sample this fig as it's already pushed out a few main crop figs.
