Take a look at the Paradiso picture in there. It looks nothing like any Paradiso we have.
Enjoy,
http://www.europuglia.it/portal/dmdocuments/minonne_ciit2.pdf

The Paradiso shown is dark-skinned!? Mine is green skinned,
but I heard that there are [at least] 2 variants.

I am convinced that I have seen and had the chance to ask for some cuttings
of the 'A Sangu' fig. A deep-veggie-green skin and deep-blood-red pulp fig,
but stopped short because of what I saw ; fruit tend to split [wide] open like [a] starfish,
and that was in a dry Mediterranean area summer.
The tree could have been excessively watered  [locally,  water was available
via just a plain garden hose], I do not know... will check next time... [if and when
I manage to go back - pending that the tree is still there - for better or worse;
I will bring some cuttings].

[x] = edit 11/23/08
Re the starfish thing:  the (some) flat-split-figs stood out like a beacon,  from
some 100+ feet away, like the 'Angel' on top of  a Xmas-tree or a
light-house-beam, except that  it was the deep-red on the green-background
contrast that really stood-out.

As I (somewhat) said before, I am not 100% sure that what I saw was
actually a "A Sangu', but recalling my (fainting-memory) and seeing this picture,
they are as close-resembling as I have ever seen/re-call.

Yes, there are local native fig-wasps there (re: Sue's caprification issue).

...or maybe the ones in the photo were over caprified causing them to split. Maybe in your area without the wasp they would not split? Of course if they need caprification that's another story.
Sue

Gorgi,
I've been trying to get A Sangu cuttings with no luck. Please tell me if you were ever able to get any of that.
It may or may not split, it's worth to give it a try.

Here is a busy Hungarian fig site which surely needs English translation.

http://www.terebess.hu/tiszaorveny/gyumolcs/fuge.html
 

I think the splitting may be a characteristic of the fig itself.  Shirazi figs also have the same habit of splitting wide open in dry regions.

I was under the impression that splitting was caused by excessive moisture, humidity or watering during ripening. I don't understand the comment about splitting in dry regions? Can you explain?

My experience is that figs tend to split more when both roots and mostly the actual
fruit gets too wet, say by excessive constant rain/moisture.
[edit: possibly because more water tends to be absorbed through the eye and skin]
When I water my potted
figs, I usually drench them and still do not see any resulting splitting from that.
In the Mediterranean area mentioned, it does not rain at all during summer, but
this tree in question could very possibly been constantly watered.
Some splittings is also said to happen in some caprified figs, because of the
huge amount of viable (and fat) seeds inside.

The constant watering would make sense as does the over caprification. I just don't see the relationship to the dry region mentioned in the earlier post. Am I missing something?

The point I was trying to make, was that one does expect figs to split much less in
drier regions; unless as pointed out, splitting occurs due to other factors.

Yes, I agree. Was trying to see if there was something else I didn't know about. Thanks.