Dear Figs4Fun Forum Members,

I would most appreciate your help in trying to identify the following pictured fig tree variety. My father helped plant the tree in his neighbor's yard well over 20 years ago and has no idea of the type. Our kind, wonderful neighbor, Mr. Warren, sadly passed over 10 years ago, so we just refer to it as Mr. Warren's fig tree. 

Located in Portsmouth, Virginia (Zone 8a), it's a hardy producer and come August/September it is heavy laden with figs.

This past september, my sister and I, (who live in Zone 7a), asked the current neighbor if we could take some cuttings. They generously agreed and we have about 12 little fig trees, still in cups, but doing quite well.

While we'll always remember Mr. Warren and going next door to eat the fresh figs straight off the tree, we would really like to know the specific variety. Hopefully we'll be lucky enough to cultivate the small cuttings in to larger specimens to be planted in our gardens and the gardens of neighbors who are fig lovers.

Many, many thanks for your time and responses!

MooreFigs

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

    

Welcome to the forum. Looks good but not sure. Looks like a brown turkey cross3d with a green ischia. I have no clue.

Thanks for your comment Richie. I was thinking maybe Brown Turkey, but I'm a fig novice with too little experience. 

Both the fruit and leaves look like a BT to me. Nice story, thanks for sharing.

Many years ago I had received cuttings of what was named "Warren BT". I do not have pictures off leaves or the fruit for comparison but I still have the "Warren BT" plant though ignored all these years because I found nothing attractive in it like productivity & ripening (& probably influenced by Jon's view of the BTs to spend more efforts on it).

Thanks for the comments:

sppsp: The taste is honey sweet but pretty mild. Light but pleasing!

SuperMario1: Yeah, I think you are right that it's a BT. Much more "interesting" varieties out there, but still good to get some confirmation.

OttawanZ5: What a coincidence with your "Warren BT"!!! I'm pretty sure in this instance, Mr. Warren just happened to get a BT from our local nursery. He wasn't really a fig enthusiast, but was a great neighbor who shared the fruit of his one tree. 

MoorFigs, I got it in 2010 from another fig enthusiast 'Robert G' and he had marked the cuttings 'Warren BT' to differentiate from many other BT types circulating.