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Help ID this Syrian fig I got

Hello guys!
I just had my first fully ripe fig from this tree. Can you ID it if you can?
Update on the next post in this topic.
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Here are the leaf patterns I could take of it:
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and here is the fruit:
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I will have a hard time describing the taste because It is my first fig from the tree and I only ate one half of it. It tastes mildly sweet and has a fruity taste like water melon or a melon something like that but a little sweeter (Other person said it tasted like honey). the skin is unnoticeable it all was like a mush or like a jam (Very soft) with some very tiny seeds which were unnoticeable. weird taste, strange. Very different from store bought figs.
Can you help ID it?


Update:
The taste is much better now! So much sweeter like honey and another flavour mixed. Size is improving slowly. These figs are after 1 year in ground now it entered the second year I think. The first figs were not as good as these now. 
Still no info on the variety.

Hi Speedmaster,
This is not a wide spread fig.
So an unknown at least for me.
Look locally if you can find someone else that has that strain ...

Hello Speedmaster

Welcome to the forum.
This is a nice honey fig but I cannot help telling you what variety it is.

http://www.treesofjoy.com/fig-varieties-collection

Have a look on this page which has been put together by one of our fellow members (Bass)
There are various Syrian fgs shown the and yours seems to be a Barada or a Byadi ?? not sure.
Think Bass will definitely help you to identify your fig.

Is this the only variety you have ?
What climate have you on your zone and how about Caprifigs ??
Around the Gulf there are fabulous figs, mostly unknown, in Irak, Iran, etc..

Cheers

Francisco
Portugal

Thanks jdsfrance , I thought it would be the same giving the similarity of the fruit.
Thank you 
lampo , I think mine is closer to Syrian 8 "Syrian Honey"  or Matta ? I think these are closer. I will PM Bass and see. Thanks alot!

Hello Speedmaster, That is a pretty little fig, could it ripen a bit more for a deeper taste?

Mike in Hanover, VA

Hello there MGorski, yeah I took it too early and it was the first ripe fig from the tree. Taste has improved since. Size is improving slowly. There is another fig from the same tree but it is still ripening since spring while others fell and some ripened and now there are new ones emerging while it is slowly turning color. Taste is sweet almost as sweet as a "Khalas date" but it has a weird melony aftertaste and some that got too dry have a skin that has hair or microscopic hooks. When taken ripe and droopy the skin blends with fruit inside. The tree produced figs 3 times this year, one for spring which fell in summer heat when temps reached 45-55C and only one fig is remaining of these still didnt ripen. The other fruits came in the middle of summer and only 3 fruits remain from them after I and the birds took our share and are ripening now. And now new embryos are emerging everywhere.
I suspect the fig from the first season got pollinated because it is bigger and looks different. But pollen is from wild ficus...that is if it was pollinated.

Ill post something soon about these two different figs from the same tree because one big fig splitted and was red from inside...

Hi
this is a breba of a local variety ,but looks exactly the same-yellow color with white-yellow pulp.
the leafs are abit different but the juvenile leafs looks the same as yours.


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Hi Elin, The only problem is that these are the main crop from the tree. Even the main crop differs from branches in size and taste. In the middle stem the figs are bigger and taste better, I guess because It is what I began with before it spread suckers. The leaves definitely look somewhat similar.
Here are the two different fruits from the same tree. That one split for no known reason, Was dry and hot when this happened....
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And here is a normal Fig from the same tree (same as above in the first post):

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Maybe The green one got pollinated?


Hello,
As previously mentioned by Lampo it's very closely related to Barada or Byadi. This is goes by the name Byadi also, but it's different than the Byadi I grow. If it has somewhat of a honey flavor, it goes by the name Assayli عسيلي. These are some of the sweetest figs.

Thanks Bassem, It was very helpful. Yeah when given time to ripen properly (I can't wait for it to ripen) it tastes sweeter than any fig I have tasted. I tasted 3 types to date LOL...
Before I write I ate one which was still a bit green lol was good but the skin was still hard with little hooks...

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