Thank you all for your help in ID-ing my Unknown fig tree.
Sas, Thanks for the pictures and flavor description. I thought I might be over critical and negative in my review but was trying to be honest. It was good to hear someone else’s opinion on their flavor. They aren’t that bad if they’re the only ripe fig around and you’re hungry. Some people’s descriptions of certain figs on the boards seem exaggerated, but I haven’t been eating figs for that long so could possibly be wrong.
tennesseefig, I wonder why they call it Italian Honey? I have honey in my coffee every morning and for me honey has a very different flavor sweetness in contrast to Marsellles’s sweetness of white sugar. Pete’s Honey last year tasted more like honey.
This fig tree is a wonderful producer, almost continuous over the year, with figs of a smaller size than breba and main crop hanging on the tree after leaf fall through the winter. I thought it might be a Capri fig, but the birds finished off the fall crop within a week of ripening- I think in February. I wasn’t eager to eat them myself, thinking little sleeping fig wasps might be inside.
Richie, I got a ladder and looked for some ripe breba with sugar spots but just found one shriveled up. I’ll spare you the picture. Perhaps some others will develop the spots.