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Figs of Iraq

A Facebook friend shared with me a photo of an Iraqi fig. These figs are from Sulaymaniyah in north east Iraq.
They look a lot like Zidi I think.

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The blue and red looks very brillant, are the pictures  photoshopped? Does not look natural

Sometimes the dark color of the fig skin comes up bluish on camera, but I really don't think it's that bluish but rather a darker shade.

Steps to be awesome!

Step one. Get name of figs by which they go by over there. 
Step two. Get some and grow them here. 
Step thee. Share with other members to cultivate as long as they keep the name the same. 
Step four. Happy members on this forum. 

:)

I can only imagine all of the varieties in these areas that we have no ideas about but they have grown for hundreds if not thousands of years.

Thanks for sharing this photo, those are some beautiful figs. 

I hope my Unk. Iraqi will set fruit this year. If only I can stop chopping away at it.
And I hope it doesn't need the wasp to
Pollinate it. That would be a heart breaker.

Wonder if its the same as the one in the picture?
Only time will tell.

Congratulations Bass, this is a fantastic picture of a unknown but wonder full fruit. When first looked at that plate thought you were showing us some giant  blueberries !!

Not very common with our dark figs but some black varieties sometimes convey to the pictures a particularly colored glare filling our eyes and very pleasant to look at.
Through ripeness , some figs, grapes, berries,... do bring up to their skins a particular pigment which combined with the the micro 'hairs' on the fruit skin may generate reflections and those colors....but light will be of utmost importance . With a very high Sun I think we could never achieve that but particularly close to sunset and depending from your angle of focus those colors could be very much  much highlighted and this without any particular light filtration and/or tricks. You may try one day with your own figs

A couple of notes on these mouth-watering figs:

Agree that they ressemble zidi's but from a scale perspective much smaller.

Those swollen syconia cracking through the ostiole scales may indicate excessive pollination.
this leads me to believe that they are of a Smyrna variety ---and this also adds on tho their marked colors both skin and pulp.

Cannot see any particular high humidity in Summer time in NE Irak to promote that cracking

For a while two or three more defined profiles from the picture , some clear  dots on their skin and their thick necks, made me to think of BM or Violeta.

Francisco

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