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Fig ID help

I found this 30 year old fig tree driving through side streets, need help identifying it.

It has very large green figs that stay green or yellow; all are green right now! and most are over two inches wide, the guy said he normally gets three crops of figs a year. Here are some picks of the leaves...
Oh, and the figs had somewhat of a long neck.
I got plenty for cuttings.
The eye was closed and he said the figs get huge, like 3 3 1/2 inches wide.

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Pictures from today, I wanted to have a pic of the figs, was thinking it might help, and more cuttings.

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Beautiful tree. Sorry I can't be of more help. I'm not familiar with '3-crop' trees.

Maybe some pics later of inside/outside ripe fruit could shed some light.

Do you know if this is common, Smyrna, San Pedro? Perhaps that's a good place to start...

Must be common sense he located in AZ. BIG FIGS ATE ALWAYS INTERESTING TO HAVE.

I'll cut open one of the figs and post a pic if that helps, but it was somewhat hollow with a closed eye.

The fig I cut open wasn't ripe, still has several weeks to go.

I thought the wasp made its way into Arizona. I learned something today

Think California is the only spot in usa. I could be c wrong.

Do the leave shapes hint at any possible varieties?

White Adriatic is a possibility.

I think you will have to wait for ripe fruit before anyone contributes something somewhat definitive. Those look like breaba, so get pics of the inside and out of breba and main crop. 

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Originally Posted by laeotis
White Adriatic is a possibility.
very nice guess. The middle leaf is identical to White Adriatic

Very light and spongelike, I'm guessing they need a bit longer

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Yes like a lot longer.

Beautiful tree.
I wouldn't rule out Lattarula or similar to that. It all has to do with the interior color of the fig.
You'll have to wait another month or so until the bredas ripen .
The leaf shape could be an indicator but as you can see from your pics it has at least three different patterns so go figure... lol
White interior with lots of seeds is my guess
Good luck

Anyone know the type of this tree? It may be common? It is in my neighborhood and I'm a newbie. I'm trying to find out if it is related to another tree. The fruit is sweet but not overly sweet and slight seed crunch. The skin is sort of thin.  figingrid.jpg  figingrid2.jpg  figingrid3.jpg  figingrid4.jpg I


Regarding the OP, it might be White Marseille.

I'm thinking these figs needed another week to 10 days to fully ripen.
Will post again soon with updates... some other figs I couldn't reach were yellowing a bit.

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So I went back today and found 10 or so ripe to over ripe figs, first was ok... little crunch, a bit of sweetness, yellowish green on the outside, reddish golden on the inside, not great but ok at best... the next was squishy and sour, watery, kind of disgusting!!! I spit most of that one out.
Next one was watery, very bland, part was squishy, and part rotten... 3 out of 10 were good the rest were bad, the worst I've ever had.
Kinda bummed a bit, was really hoping for amazing, I still have two cuttings I'm growing out, have my fingers crossed that I can do this fig better, if not I'm just going the cut and graft that sucker.
I still think it has the coolest leaves of any fig tree I've seen so far.

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