Hi! Im new so pardon if I sound it.  I have been reading the forum for months and just got registered.  I have a wonderful neighbor who also collects fig trees and has about 8 that are all local and older.  I have 4 of his 8 he gave me in rooted cuttings.  I know its next to impossable to type them but if anyone has a vauge guess thats enough for me.  #1 From Texas, old farm large green with pink inside kind of dry ok taste.  #2 Large Redish outisde and very sweet and juicy pinkish amber inside.  #3 small green also very sweet and pink inside.  #4 Small brown very sweet amber inside, said to be LSU dont know which one though. By the way I live near Dallas which is North-east Texas. So HOT right now all my other fig trees have completely lost their figs. I love this forum!

#4 maybe golden Celeste (also called Champagne) if it is in fact an LSU fig.

just a guess, though.

~Chills

Awesome! Thanks Chills, I will write that down.

I do not know what fig it is, but it does not look anywhere near the Golden Celeste
that I have (source: SSE - GA IN C 06). Yellow-green skin, long neck, amber pulp.
George (NJ).
P.S. The PN was the biggest I ever had; 2.75x1.5 inches. Both tasted rather bland
(lack of heat?).

I agree, I took a look at the pics on the Encanto varietys and the Golden Celeste has a different leaf too.  Kinda similar to LSU Gold maybe? Ya know I had the same thing with my figs, bland only here its lack of water probably.  The PN is huge :) Thats next on my list for Spring, who am I kidding, my list is a page long, haha. Thanks for the input too!

Wait a second! F4F shows 2 different kinds that are cross referenced.

Golden Celeste that does (somewhat) look like your fruit (not leaves).
and
LSU Golden Celeste that looks like mine.

My Golden Celeste had a long neck and tear drop shape, green/yellow exterior and reddish/honey interior. (see LSU Golden Celeste at F4F).

The Golden Celeste at USDA / UC Davis is considerably different judging from Ken Love's pix at F4F (See Golden Celeste).

LSU Gold in an entirely different fig, here. Larger, almost no neck, flatter bottom, and color mostly honey with just a twinge of pink, perhaps. Different flavor, as well. (see LSU Gold)

The last one that you described LSU Gold sounds like mine, pretty exactly! I hope thats what it is. Its the best one I have next to the small brown one.

Oh, now I am very happy that LSU re-named their Golden Celeste as "Champagne".
My Golden Celeste is definitely a Champagne  (not UCD)...

(edit):
Also I like to poke them French! Wonder if they have a problem with
the Champagne word in the fig-world; I know that there was a problem
in the "sparkling-wine"  world.

Not so happy about the re-naming their (LSU) Giant Celeste as "Tiger" though.
At minimum, it should be known as LSU Tiger, as somebody else had suggested.
I think it still need to be called with the LSU prefix, at least within this fig community;
so as not to be confused with the real-striped(variegated)-old-TIGER-Panachee-fig!
I would hate to explain, each time, that IT is the LSU variety, and not the Panachee kind...

Quoting one of the old famous Yankee (baseball player)  Yogi Berra sayings:
"It's deja vu all over again."

George (NJ).

 Since LSU made tree it should have the prefix like George said. The tiger is also in my opinon is not good choice as well. LSU TIGER sounds like a sports team . But whom am i to say just my opinon.
Martin

Hi Martin,

I was looking through some older posts and saw what you said about the LSU Tiger.  It's called Tiger precisely because of what you said--The LSU football team are the LSU Tigers.  :)  You got it right.  Their school colors are Purple and Gold, just like the figs--LSU Purple and LSU Gold.  I think that's neat.  We do call them LSU Purple, LSU Gold and LSU Tiger.

noss

Well now that makes sense.
I dont know anything about college sports or there teams.
But to this date still sounds funny name for a fig but thats not the only one
that sounds different !