I received and planted a fig named Ithaca but do not know anything about Ithaca. Any knowledge would help.

Wonder if it could be this same tree?
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16950580

The only reference I could find was also related to that story via Australia. Got it from a gentleman down here in south Louisiana.

Do you think maybe it is an Ischia?

 Walmart sold a fig down here a few years ago labeled Ischia.  I believe it turned out to be a White Marseilles.

I live thirty minutes from a town called Ithaca New York. It is were Cornell university is. Your grape and apple scion come from here for usda. Could it just be a local fig for there. It is zone five but right on the lakes are zone six.

Hello Jeffrey , I don't post much at all but I've been trying to identify many figs with the help of all the people on this woderful forum and their pictures . LSU has Ithaca listed as a synonym for what I call Hardly Chicago. I see you are in Lafayette,,, Louisiana I assume, since you are an Ortego. I live in Sunset . I've been trying to identify a Fig labeled Ithica that I received from a man who had connections with LSU years ago . I have sold this Fig to others and I misspelled it Ithaca. It is very close to an LSU Scott's black . I am waiting for my tree to mature a few years after its first winter knocked it down since it was growing and green when the first freeze hit . Then I will be able to tell what time of year it ripens and the True Color of the pUlp. As a juvenile the pulp was not as dark red as Scott's black . It can also get many figs as large as LSU gold. I'll attach a few pictures of my Ithica. Swing by sometime this summer and eat some!
Terry in Sunset,

its a greek fig from the island ithaca.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaca