Hi Fig Lovers,

My Negronne fig, the main branch have a right leaves with single lob (spade looks).... but another new sub branches raising with finger lobs... why?

Will this impact for the taste quality (crop) from main branch vs sub branches?

Thanks for your opinion..

Best regards,

Eddy

The lower five lobe ones look like Negronne.  I don't have a clue about the single lobe ones.  Is it a grafted tree?

This is a crop from main branch.


 
 
 
 
The taste is sweet, a little dry, and chewy... very nice taste compare from another variant fig.

Hi
Very curious looking. Negronne is famous for its finger leaves. The spade leaves look like something else.
The figs look right though.

This happens quite often.
Vdb &. Nero 600m. I pulled leaves off my 600 because of damage and all grew back spade. Also have negronne that is a fair size that has all spade leaves and one branch with finger leaves. Will take pic in morning for a comparison. Strange how,this,happens. There is a tread on this topic on this forum somewhere lol. Richie from louisiana

Hi Eddy,
  My Violette de Bordeaux which I think is also Negronne grew the same way as your Negronne with different leaves for a couple of years and resumed growing finger like leaves.

Figpig66
 I believe that your Nero 600M is also called Vallecalda.

Phil from Ohio

Thanks phil. Going to search for info on vallecalda

My VDB has one branch of spade leaves and the rest with fingers.

I have a Salce the same way. The original cutting is the main growth with spade leaves for three years now, but the  suckers from the bottom of the trunk are multi-lobed. The spade-leaf growth has not fruited. The new growth with muti-lobed leaves has.

I haven't tasted it yet. I got it from Wellspring as a TC plant and it grew only finger leaves last year. I planted it outside and it died to the ground. This year it gave me two types of leaves and no figs. I am going to prune it back to a single stem and hippie for the best this year.

Negronne/Violette de Bordeaux sometimes have single lobed leaves. It is weird, but it does happen. Quite possible that next year it will have traditional lobed leaves, or it might stay like it is for 2-3 years and then change. Welcome to figs.

My Vista OL (Violette de Bordeaux) had single lov=bed leaves for about 5 years. I though I had mis-labeled it until it finally grew normal looking leaves.

Here is my tree that has same fruit on both types of branches. Just one branch has finger type leaves. Fruit is still very hard

some new crops shows up from branch with spade leaves 
 
some new crops shows up from branch with finger leaves 
 

not ripen yet... must waiting to make sure the taste quality is same or different from branch with spade leaves..

Negronne always show two types of leaves.
The round, mulberry style ones and the lobed ones...

Even on the Pierre Baud (Provence France) website it is mentioned.

My french Negronne