This 35 years old tree is belong to one of my many Greek friends. She told me that her best friend who lived in the same town in Greece  left his country for the United States many years ago. At that time, he took with him more than 10 different figs cuttings. He grew all his fig trees in the ground at his house. Her fig tree was the cutting from one of her friend's fig tree collection. Her friend lived at that house for 65 years. He sold his house a few years ago. However, the new owner does not like figs much; therefore, he cut and trimmed most of his trees short. I passed by that house a few days ago and I still saw 3 fig trees in the front of the house and a few more fig trees in the back of the house. So, I guess the mother tree is at least 70 years old. By the way, the mother tree is Green Greek. I am asking the fig gurus out there, please let know if this is really the Green Greek. The figs taste very good with sweet, jammy, crunchy and figgy flavor.












































































Best,
Tam

Great pictures Tam!

Thanks Meghan

Best,
Tam

So yummy looking!

Tam, I really love your pictures. I get to see everything I am wondering about and the pics are always clear. Nicely done, please keep posting these!

Thanks Tami.

Best,
Tam

Very nice pictures and one great fig !
Will contact my friends in Greece to get
one or two young trees this fall

Francisco

Tam, the leaves are much different than Vasilika Seka and Stella.  I wonder how Green Greek fruit compares to those two varieties?

Once again, nicely done Tam!

Look very nice.  EXCELLENT job on the pictures.  hopefully some of our more experienced members will chime in later

Thanks everyone. 

Steve: This Green Greek tree is not the same as Stella for sure, but I do not know if it is the same as Vasilika Sika or not. I tasted 2 Stella and 1 Dalmatie figs from Al's trees last week, but to me Green Greek figs have better taste than those 2 varieties. Thank you.

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Tam

Tam:I have your so called Green Greek,traced, from Greece ,identical to yours,and it came,to me under the Vasilika Sika Name.
However the Vasilika Sika Name is used in the US,for a fig that is ,called Dalmatie in Europe.
The same Dalmatie fig is found under other names here,and some are:
White Greek,Stella,San Pietro(in UCDavis catalog),etc.
One other poster from Greece posted last year ,2 kind of Vasilika Sika:
The white version,Identical to your fig and mine.
Dark version,a,much more elongated cauducous fig that need polinnation.
He also pointed out that the white version is much better tasting and a better over all plant.
So here you got my opinion.
I do have Dalmatie,and had in the past other similar to,Dalmatie figs,and ,can point out that is an excellent tasting fig,but the Vasilika Sika you and I have is indeed a notch better tasting,tho it ripes 2-3 weeks after Dalmatie.

That is one amazing fig. Good luck and good find! Nice pictures too.

Herman2, thanks for the geneology information of these related fig varieties.  I feel like I need to draw up a diagram to keep it all straight though!

Tam, you have some great fig connections!

Thanks everyone for the inputs. 


Herman2: Thank you very much for your helpful information about this fig. Should I let the owner know that her Green Greek is actually Vasilika Sika? 


Steve: You have Vasilika Sika too. Can you please let me know about the leaves of yours? Thank you.

Best,
Tam

Looks just like my green Greek. My cuttings came to me as black Greek from Anton who posted on Garden web for a while. I thought he said he brought this back from Greece.

KK: Thank you for posting your green Greek photos. The centers of your figs are hollows, maybe your tree is young. The color of the pulps are more like pinkish red. What are about the leaves, are they the same too? The outside of your figs is the as my Green Greek. The fully ripened figs of my Green Greek have purplish red pulps and they do not have hollow pulps. Thank you for watching my photos.

Best,
Tam

I have several divisions of birds to the east, 1 division to the North and the main Army to the south.

 An almost ripe fig is a million times better than no fig at all :)

KK:Your fig is identical to Adriatic JH,not to Vasilika Sika.
Tam:Yes you can tell the person,the fig is Vasilika Sika,Identical to mine that,came under VS Name from the beginning.
Look at the pixes of the fruits last year,3 years old plant,bad cool climate last year here,that is why fruit is dark green ,but look at the leaf,that tells it is the same cultivar as yours.
This year fruits are larger,only now it started ripening here,with another very bad unsuitable Summer ,tonight will be in the upper 30.
Tam:Trust me your plant is identical to mine

KK: Thank you for your photos. I saw your tree has a few single lobed leaves whereas my Green Greek has no single lobed leaves, but they have mostly 3 and 5 lobed leaves. Maybe, single lobed leaves only shown up at young tree. Thank you.

Best,
Tam

Herman2: Thank you very much I will let the owner know that her tree is Vasilika Sika.

Best,
Tam

Tam, my Vasilika Sika leaves (and those of others I have seen posted on the forum, I believe) have long, narrow finger-like lobes not unlike Brunswick and very similar to Stella.  According to Herman (above) mine and others called Vasilika Sika is actually Dalmatie.  I'll post the leaves tonight.

it is very similar as  COL DE DAME