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Help needed to identify a Fig variety

Hi everyone, can you help me identify this variety? As you can see the leaves don't have the typical shape for most fig varieties, actually if it didn't have that fruit I could have easily missed it for a non-fig tree:

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This photo was taken today March 30th, so this is most likely a breba variety as the fruit grows rapidly soon after dormancy. The tree was dormant for 4 months during the cold.

Thanks


Just a guess. Cant tell a variety by youn leaves but the shape of your fig looks like lsu purple. They start out lop sided.

Thanks figpig_66 I might have to come back later here with updated photos :)
I briefly reviewed the LSU Purple online and seeing mixed reviews for the fruit taste.

Cheers

looks nothing like any LSU purple I've got or seen.  I dont have any like that particular leaf.  It looks like the small leaf will be different (lobed) and perhaps closer to the mature shape.

Thanks for your input bamafig, yeah I was thinking the same thing, so I shall wait to see, will post updated photos once those leaves mature a bit more.

My JH Adriatic leaves looked like that first year, although they grew quite upright.

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Originally Posted by alanmercieca
A young fig tree like that rarely has accurate leaf shape, especially that early in to the season, sometimes it can take 5 years to get an accurate leaf shape. Our very young Aldo fig tree had leaves exactly like that too.[/QUOTE. Agreed. I was just stating a lsu purple fig starts out with lop sided figs. Lol. I have a celeste FIG I AM ROOTING FROM A TREE FROM MY CHURCH. THE THEY ALL HAVE JAGGED SINGLE LOBED LEAVES. LOOKS NOTHING LIKE MOTHER TREE ] takes about six months to get anything close to a mature leaf. Richie

Those 'serrated' leaves are definitely very distinctive.
'Wuhan' is one such fig with similar leaves ...
I had at least one other fig with serrated leaves; but right now I cannot recall the name(s).

Thank you guys, this has been helpful so far...
"Wuhan" is definitely a good candidate, the resemblance in the leaves is there, especially the "serrated" leaves: http://www.figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/show_single_post?pid=1287344557&postcount=8&forum=0
Some of the other varieties suggested could also be, will have to wait and see I guess..

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Originally Posted by alanmercieca
Did you know anything about this fig tree?

not much, it was given to me. The person that gave it to me has many varieties (over 70 I believe), and they told me they lost the tag for this one.

Nero 600M is also famous for this type of immature leaf co-existing with a more mature version.