I was at a local wholesale nursery (farsouthnursery.com) yesterday and they had some varieties I haven't heard of before.

French Castle 
Galbun
Spicewood
Westview

Google wasn't much help for me, I'm hoping someone out there has some info.

Thanks!

Jon (pitangadiago) has the Galbun variety referenced in his variety database:
http://figs4fun.com/Varieties.html

The others are not listed there.

There is a Castle Kennedy and they might be Republicans or anti-Catholic  :)

Hey thanks!  1 down 3 more to go.

Here's another link to Gulbun

Castle Kennedy is another name for Brunswick (as per Jon's list). I don't think that's French Castle though. I think you have Galbun and 3 unknowns.

The Westview sounds like an unknown found on the Westview street to me.

Maybe that wholesale nursery is thinking about listing some of those as proprietary figs and since nobody has heard of them, imagine how high they will sell on the Ebay frenzy!  Maybe you should buy a few and list them as "rare!"  You could flip a pretty good profit!

I am just kidding, but truly this is how the confusion begins.

Suzi

Who knows what any of them really are -including the one labeled Galbun. Sounds like someone had no idea what the varieties where so they made up some labels and stuck them on the plants.

If you'd really like to find out more about what varieties they are, buy one of each. Grow them to fruiting size & post some pics & info on here. You still may not find out exactly what they are but at least you will learn a lot more about them.

Who knows, maybe some of them will be fairly easy to ID from their fruit. Or maybe they all turn out to be the same variety. Or possibly some of them are varieties never even heard of before. With most large wholesale nurseries, you'll just never know unless you grow them out to see for yourself.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.............. 

I'm blown away what some people are willing to pay for cuttings on Ebay, I just gave up.  I'm patient, I'll wait till everyone has "it" and prices come down.  kinda like netflix, I can wait to watch the newest movie.

 The flip, as a landscaper and gardener for both pleasure and profit I must admit that thought has crossed my mind. 

but the variety would also have to be good, I do have morals.  I would think some kind of hype would also have to accompany it.  I'm not sure their source or if they grew them or not.

I'll ask next time I'm there, but there were no descriptions, let alone hype attached to plants.  Being new to figs I wouldn't recognize a special one (other than healthy).  I'd have to taste it.

I'm still hoping someone knows of them.  With a name like Spicewood, it sure has piqued my interest.

Saxon,
"Nothing ventured, nothing gained"

Good advice. 

Spicewood? I have that fig. If I remember correctly it's a shiny green medium size fig with a dark red center. Sue or JD can chime in here. It's a good fig, not many folks here have it. Mine grows in a bush shape.

I think French Castle is a black fig from France. But don't quote me on that. Again, JD might have that one too. Glad to hear some of these are still around!

Hi DonCentralTexas,
The price please ? If they are 10$ each give them a try, if they are 50$ each .. Well I would let them stay where they are :)
The choice is yours :)
As for french cattle, it is nothing known here . Do you have a photo of the fruit and leaves ?

Here some nurseries sell fig trees by .... ... Ficus carica . You don't even know if they are dark or green once ripe ...
Most of the times those are trees of 1,5 meter and they sell those between 50 and 100 € - way too much for my wallet :)

Nope, I was wrong about French Castle.  I just called and talked to a lady at the nursery.  This company is a wholesaler.  The French Castle might be Celeste.  She called it Malta which is a darker verison of Celeste.  According to the lady on the phone, she said the figs are bigger and darker than Celeste.  Jon and Adiano has Malta as the same as Celeste or at least in the Celeste family.

She did not know much about figs but was able to say the cuttings came from locals and most were unknowns.  And their prices are fair compared to their size.