Hi. I'm a fig novice. This wonderful forum helped me identify a green ischia last year. Can you help again? Using Ray Givan's booklet I think the leaf is palmately lobed, with calcarate base and lobes lineate. The fruit is yellowish with a brown slightly rosy blush and a rosy open eye, no neck, and the inside is strawberry-brown in color with a cavity. After that I'm stuck. The tree is so young that I can only get one ripe fig at a time for photos. Thanks!

It looks like it could be Brunswick but hopefully others with more fig ID'ing skill can weigh in.

Thanks for your thoughts, Rewton. I should add that I am in Maryland, zone 7a. The tree was a cutting from a very happy tree in a friend's yard, but she got hers as a cutting too and has no idea of the variety.

I'm not sure, but it doesn't look like that fig was ripe yet.  Do they get darker if you leave them on the tree?

I forgot to mention - welcome to the forum!  There are a lot of "fig nuts" in the MD/DC/NoVA area.

The first fig I collected was an unknown that was apparently Brunswick or some variant thereof.  There's some images of that unknown in this thread: http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/please-help-me-identify-my-unknown-5983133

I obtained this one from a lady in Lanham, MD and there does seem to be a fair number of Brunswicks in the area.

The fruit that you show, in particular, looks like Brunswick fruit to me in terms of the colors and void in the pulp.

I probably did pick these figs a little early due to being eager to post photos. This is the first year the tree has produced. The one in the photos with the diagonal leaf was riper and darker. They don't get super-dark though. If the weather cooperates, perhaps I can update with a better picture later in the week.

Brunswick is a good guess and yes they definitely were picked before fully ripening.  I do understand that anxiousness to get those first figs, but you will enjoy them much better if you give them more time to ripen. 

Hi! Chlorophill





 















 
Welcome to the Fig Forum. The leaf and fig photos look to me like Brunswick too. If you can take more photos of the whole tree, branches and ripening figs so we can help ID it better. This is a link to my thread on Brunswick. Thank you.

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/brunswick-photos-6496657

Best,
Tam 

Thanks Rewton, Meghan, BLB and Tam. I did look at your Brunswick pictures, Tam, and see the similarity. The friend who has the parent tree agrees. I'm back as promised with pictures of a fully ripe fruit to see if that confirms or changes anyone's impression. Couldn't get pictures of the tree itself as right now it's in a corner behind some other plants that obscure the view.

Hi! Chlorophill,

Your welcome.

Best,
Tam