My family and I used to live in Central Asia and ate wonderful yellowish-green figs from Uzbekistan. The skin was a little thick, but not bad tasting, and the pulp was very juicy. The local trees I saw were 20+ ft tall. In the local language it is called a "Sari Zeybek" fig.

Now I found someone growing a transplant here in the US and bought cuttings.I wonder if this is an identified variety here in the US. Here are some pictures. Any ideas?

 
 
 

Very nice fig size and colour......


Ong,


Jakarta, Indonesia

I understand 'Sari Zeybek' is a bonafide cultivar name among the Anatolian/Turkish group. Member aliok1 posted this Turkish fig catalog in earlier threads: 
http://www.volkanderinbay.com/tarimnet/ktlgMeyv.asp?meyve=%DDncir&yazi=6&defa=2 which he translated here: http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/turks-important-figs-photos-6183565

Thanks for the link to the info in the F4F data base, very interesting. I sure hope I can get it to grow here in zone 7. The original grandmother tree in Uzbekistan was located in Tashkent, and Tashkent gets pretty cold sometimes, into low the teens or even single digits from time to time. The biggest climactic difference will be humidity. Here in AR we have very high humidity, but Uzbekistan has very low. I don't know how much of a problem that will be, but I am willing to give it a try. 

The Turkish varieties are beautiful figs, aren't they? Hopefully someone will take the initiative to have them properly imported and quarantined Stateside for future distribution (nudge nudge). BTW Since your prior experience was with Central Asia, the UCDavis DNA project received a series of cultivars from the Turkmenistan AgExtension (listed below) for study--they were considered "unique," and it was unknown at the time whether caprification was required. Turkish fig names (e.g., Bursa, Zeybek, etc.) weren't included in the study as far as I can tell, so don't know if there is synonymity/overlap with the Turkmen figs:

source: http://figs4fun.com/Links/FigLink1110.pdf

Hi Gene,

Sari Zeibek together with Sarilop seem to be the best Turkish varieties for the industry of the dried fig.
I understand that Sarilop is synonym to 'Calymirna' and for sure do need pollination.

As for Sari Zeibek I am unaware of that requirement,.. but almost as a rule most of the best Turkish dried figs get pollination. Like Sarilop, aka Calymirna, it is a large fruit with very light skin colors as well as interiors.
Has somebody cultivated this variety in the US ?

Open this page (not in English) describing the various types and varieties of the most current Turkish figs-  the Google translator for these short descriptive texts is OK

http://incirmucizesi.imanisiteler.com/cesit.htm

Francisco

The man I bought cuttings from is in Arizona, do you know if they have fig wasps there?

Great news! Thanks Alan.