Tony
 I want to thank you for this list.  You've done a great service to many of us.  
Everyone that is sharing the data they compile, from their research and expeiences is truly appreciated.

  This is great
  Soni Nanci

Xinel,  I just saw you added to it,   Thank you!!!

Soni Nanci

Hi,
One year has passed us by since my last post in this thread.
Growing in my yard is the "proud man's fig" ... Drums please ... better known as: "Goutte d'or" - which could be in the "Brunswick" family if not the same cultivar.
The production was good this year for the size of the trees. They are still young and growing. Next year should be even better.
What impressed me was the size of the fruit, the honey sirup in the center and the taste. Only "problem" - the fruit swells during a longer period and sometimes, it seems like for ever :( .

Great topic guys!
Even though I live in a normaly much warmer area of the country, last winter was more than brutal to us with temps staying into the single digits for days (Fahrenheit scale)and wind chills that felt way colder! A good friend had a huge local Celest variety tree ,multiple trunks about thirty years old and planted smack in the center of a good size field totally unprotected from the elements! Died down to the roots and never came back! In general most local figs were badly damaged and anyone else from this area can attest to that!
After saying that I d like to add that my two 5 year old celeste inground made it unharmed but growing next to the house( SE location) my LSU purple got totally slammed, (next to the house SW spot) still alive but no fruit,trying to recover but here is the strange part, my 5 year old black mission growing in a bush unprotected and near the NE corner of the property came back like nothing ever happened and I' m talking Zero die back or at least visibly damaged limbs and produced about 50 smaller and later than normal figs that all ripened and tasted great! Legit mountain fig? Maybe not but I think it might deserve a second look and chance as a candidate !
So I nominate Black mission as a posible mountain warrior ;)
Thanks for Your time!

Thanks for the link on Bayernfeige Violetta  Kelby!  Also great to hear about Florea!

Hey jdsfrance! If and when you get a chance could you post a pic or two of your "Goutte d'or" just for comparison purposes !
I have, what I'm 99% sure is ,a Brunswick and would like to see any similarities or differences with Yours. Thanks much!

Kelby, you are right. Florea in my knowledge is the same as Mitchurinska10. Mitchurinska is native on the Balcan region as far as Serbia, which is the origin of Florea. The mothercountry for this variety is Bulgaria where its running under the name as 'common fig'. Mitchurinska10 is also a honey type fig, ripens about the same time as Florea. This variety is also has the same properties like Florea. For example it doesnt resist to rain, doesnt tolerate the dark hours when the sun isnt shining, and can easily sour if the weather is too rainy. The leafshape is the same as Florea.
If are they the same and we can belive to the Bulgarian agricultural university this variety is able to survive -20C with little to no damage, but it depends of the thickness of the branches. 
Anyway, this variety is very valuable due to the early ripenning time..

I put up some photos about my mitchurinska10, what do you think are they the same fig?
  
 
 

That is a great lead Kristian, thanks for sharing! I can't answer that yet as I have rooted cuttings only.

Hopefully herman2 will see this and chime in. He introduced the fig to the US from his father's garden in Serbia, so that would line up with your comments. He has stated on GardenWeb that it survived temps of -25C in Serbia and -4F here in New Jersey.

Tony, Thank you so much for starting such a great post! Thanks also, to everyone else who has added Cultivars that are cold Hardy! Great post...:)

I found an untended, unknown fig in my town that stood 0F without any dieback, AND it produced brebas after that kind of cold. I transplanted a small clump which produced some nice figs for me this summer. The leaf shape and fruit make me think it is Brunskwick. So far I am still calling it my unknown, but the more I look at pics of Brunswick, the more sure I am getting.

Kristian,

In regard to your list, at this point I would include additionally as light "mountain figs": Binello, Lattarola, and Adriatic JH. 
The latter 2 based on the reports of others. And Binello for me ripened fruit this summer after dying back to the ground during this past harsh winter. 
However, Binello like a few others on your list ripened late for me. Most of its figs did not ripen.
Maybe when older Binello and some others will ripen earlier.

As for the dark "mountain figs" list, I think that listing the many different Mt Etna strains (Hardy Chicago type) as a single cultivar better clarifies that actual diversity of mountain fig varieties. You list 9 or 10 names that are actually the same cultivar as far as fruit and leaf go, as far as I can tell. I did the same thing when I first made a mountain figs list. But I now see that there are dozens of differently named Mt Etna typed figs that seem to all be essentially the same fig, with some differences in performance. It seems that some Mt Etna strains grow faster and bigger than others, or produce more fruit more quickly, or have healthier leaves and so on. So I think it's important to keep the different names on the strains, while realizing that the culitvar appears to be one and the same.

All the other fig names on the mountain figs lists represent significantly different cultivars (different leaf shapes, different fruit tastes, and so on), as far as I can tell.

Any information or experiences that you could add that would explain why you added cultivars to the list would be interesting. For example, what information or experience might you have in regard to one I know nothing about: Ali Pasha?

Hi Tony!

I have received cuttings of Ali-Pasha fig cultivar from Bulgaria together with Michurinska-10.
Ali-Pasha is said to be even more cold hardy than Florea / Michurinska-10.
I have them both as one year old rooted cuttings, so no figs yet.

In time, I could add more details and pictures about them both.

Tony,

Your question is justifiable. About Ali Pasha. This variety is coming from Bulgaria, from the city of Kuklen. The original owner of this cultivar is Georgi Goshev, I was speak with this nursery owner. He told me a lot of good things about this variety, for example this fig has higher sugar level, much higher than Mitchurinska10, resist to rain, and ripens very early around the end of July in Bulgaria. He mentioned I have to try this variety in my climate, due to these properties.
About the others, I can only invoking to others experiences.

I link a forum where you can see photos about the fruits of this fig.

http://exoticplants.ovo.bg/forum/6-42-3

Kristian thanks for the link! I tried to apply my Greek and read some with limited success ! Awesome pics regardless! If you find some time,Which pic shows the Ali Pasa figs? And what variety are the comercial figs( the ones in the crates)? Thanks again for Your input from that part of the world!

More interesting info Kristian, thank you!

Chris, my translation said "Peter Black" about the figs in crates.

Thanks kelby great work once again bud! Those figs looked awesome by the way! Wish we had a couple of those crates now,lol!

Ali Pasha looks like a nice variety Kristian.  When I translated the page it said it had a "turkoezichnoto" name.  Do you know what that means?  Perhaps a bad google translation?  Thank you.

Greg,
You are right, its a bad translation, unfortunately I dont speak bulgarian. I have an opinion what does this mean, I think its mean this variety is coming from Turkey, because Turko means Turkish, and ezoichnoto means language. I was speak with Georgi, the original owner and he told me the city was under Turkish occupation during the 16th, and 17th century or more, as Hungary too..
But if you would like to make sure, speak with penandpike, or pako, cause they are from Bulgaria, but I think the word means what I was write down  to you.

There is a video on youtube showing the Kuklen fig,
as I undertand this is Ali Pasha cultivar.
This cultivar was introduced by turkish 200 years ago,
maybe someone from Turkey can identify its name.

Enjoy watching:

That's what I suspected.  Thank you guys!

If anyone in the USA has this fig lets talk!

I add more pictures with my fig tree Black Cartagena and some facts about it:
- this is planted in ground,
- with winter protection
- after freezing to ground level with fruit same year,
this year figs were ripen in end of september


   

Nice photos rofig! The look very similar to my Chicago hardy!
Ali Pasha was the name of the "governor" of the province of Heipiros (north west Greece) during the Turkish occupation Of the Balkans in the 1800s!
He (Ali P) revolted against the palace and that friction gave the rest of the occupied nations the chance to rise up against Turkey and fight for their freedom!
Maybe he was the one that introduced this fig variety as His favorite ,hence the name!
Just a thought!!!!