Is Marrabout and Sultan de Marabout the same fig?
I couldn’t find Sultan de Marabout in the Varieties section of the board here.
Rolling River has Marrabout for sale: “A Smyrna type fig it needs the fig wasp for pollination. Large purplish-black skinned, strawberry fleshed fruit has excellent, rich, sweet flavor. Figs ripen over a long season and are great fresh and have the classic Smyrna nutty flavor caused by the fertile seeds. Hardiness zones 8-10.”
La Vie Rustica sells Sultan de Marabout: "This fig is incredibly sweet, with complex tones of honey and perfume." “The tree bears only one crop, in the fall. The fruit doesn’t ripen all at once, but over time, from about mid-August through mid-October.” “The original cutting of this tree was a gift to the United States from the Agricultural Commissioner of Algeria during the first decades of the 20th century.”
About the taste, Ashok_ncal says: “The “Marabout” variety tasted darn good – but I don’t recall thinking that it tasted markedly better than some of the other “common” figs that we sampled. Almost all of them tasted pretty good."