this is my 3 year old unknown.....any guesses on what it could be

Sounds like a really late ripening variety
for zone 6. It looks like it WANTS to produce,
but it runs out of time.
Are you growing it in a pot?

I admire your patience, I probably would
have given up on it for not ripening earlier.
Where did the plant come from?

A picture of your fig (when it ripens) might
help with ID.

I'm gonna set a Lyndhurst White aside for
you.

Hi Ruuting...I have the plant in ground. I got it  in the Bronx from  an aunt. original cutting came from Calabria Italy . My uncle who past away had brought it here in either the seventies or eighties...I  don't know much else about it .The mother tree does ripen figs toward the end of august and is unprotected...
I was going to take a picture of the ripe fig but my son beat me to it .Hope to get a few more before the weather completely changes .... will post a picture then

I did have some die off on the tree this past winter, could that be the problem for such a late crop.... I can tell you that this fig is Delicious  hopefully I will get a chance to try  some.

Thanks for your generous offer ...I will probably have some cuttings if you are interested  this winter.

John, that might be an English Brown Turkey, main crop (a very different fig from other ones with BT in their name).  EBT is late ripening (late in setting main crop even), and the shape looks right.  The leaves look right.  What I can see of the eye looks right.  The color (mottling) of the fruit looks a little off though... maybe that could be because of cold nights while it was maturing.  Seeing a ripened sliced fig would help seal the identification one way or another.

If it is EBT, then it's very cold hardy, and a good tasting fig.  You'll probably have better luck getting breba from it than main crop though (because of the season length), but some years I get main crop too (here in zone 5a).  An early and warm spring helps a lot with that.  Nelson grows them in Canada as do some of the others up there, and I think they're effectively about a zone 6.

Good luck with it.  Show us the inside of the ripened fig too, if you succeed in getting one.

Mike   central NY state, zone 5a

Thanks Mike , will try to show a ripe one when I get it

By the way, don't be thrown by the word "English" in the name.  The English went around the Mediterranean and collected figs back around the 18th or 19th century, and cultivated the ones that were most cold hardy.  "English Brown Turkey" was probably collected from southern Italy  (maybe Sicily around Mt. Etna, maybe in the highlands of Calabria or Bari).  So the fact that this tree originally came from a cutting brought from Calabria is not at all inconsistent with it being an EBT.  Of course, there are still other varieties it could be as well... seeing a sliced ripe fruit would help considerably at narrowing it down.  

It's always interesting to hear the history of where they came from.  (Who knows whether it was an import to Southern Italy at some earlier point in history... would probably take a very detailed DNA analysis across a wide set of trees to get clues about that.  But EBT and others very similar are known to have thrived in the mountains around there).

Mike   central NY state, zone 5a

Thanks, I would be very interested in finding out the variety .

Very nice, thanks for sharing.

Best,
Tam