I received two cuttings from another collector last November.  He obtained them from a gentleman named Manuel who immigrated from Madeira.  He just calls this fig White & White Madeira (white on the outside and inside).  I believe I was told it's his favorite.  It survives in the northeast with some level of protection (not really sure how much).  This has been a fairly vigorous and precocious variety for me with two ripe fruits just six months after rooting.  After rooting indoors the tree was moved to my greenhouse around February or early March and then moved into my shadehouse maybe 5-6 weeks ago and then a few weeks ago moved outdoors in an unprotected area.  It will soon get planted in the ground.

The fruit was pleasant.  Sweet with a somewhat mild (nutty?) flavor and lots of seed crunch which somewhat surprised me.  I thought the fig looks similar to the Barada that Bass has introduced but leaves are much different.  I don't know if there is another name this fig is known by or not.

 

Wow Harvey,you really pushed those.

Harvey,

Nice fig! It looks like the Madeira's  'Fico Branco'
It rooted faster than the 'Preto' brother !

Francisco
Portugal

Nice honey type fig. 
I can't tell, does it have some rips on the skin? 
Some of the similar varieties to this type of fig is, St. Anthony, Italian Honey, Lattarula. These usually bear an early main crop. 

Very nice. COuld you graft a branch onto the same plant you graft the BM? If so you could do black and white madeira on the same tree. :).

Are the leaves exactly the same as black madeira

Jeff, anything is possible, but I don't see myself doing multi-grafted trees anytime soon.  Too busy to be that bored. :)

Ritchie, the leaves are not the same.  I don't think it is similar in any way to Black Madeira.

Harvey were those pollinated?

Brian, these fruits could not have been pollinated as no profichi were ripe back in March or so.  I'm not into collecting seeds but imagine that they would float if I had tried.

Looks interesting  .. and yummy :)

I want to eventually find a green or yellow fig f
that is fairly cold hardy .. more of a dwarf or bush that has an early ripening main crop for pot culture.


any suggestions ? 

Beautiful looking fig Harvey, whatever it is. Enjoy it !!

Both came from Madeira.  I don't believe the immigrant who this came from has Black Madeira but has several other figs which I am also growing.  Black Madeira is a name given to a fig that some immigrant in California brought from Madeira at least 50 years ago but nobody knows exactly where in Madeira that fig came from, though it is grown in many locations.  So there is really now way to give a correct answer to your question, Ritchie.

Austin, you'd get more answers if you started your own thread.  :)

Congratulations on your ripe figs in May! That's amazing.