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Name these Figs, Please

Ok, Guys; the first is Mildred's fig, the second Granny Walker's,. the third picture is comparison of three leaves of Hardy Chicago from different sources.  The middle leaf is from PlantRanch in Chicago. 

I would welcome opinions as to the identity of any of these.  Note that the middle "HC" does not resemble the other two.
Ox

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#1 seems a lot like Brunswick to me.

Jason;
I'd like to know, but whatever it is, it has survived untended between two houses in Tulsa for about 20 years.

The second has leaves much like my Texas Everbearing but the figs are not quite so large as those I am getting from the TE this year.  That came from a cutting of a tree that has lived on the S. side of a house in Broken Arrow, Ok for over 40 years and was itself a cutting from another tree that had been in Tulsa for about that long.

I have no clue what that middle leaf in the third picture is.  It was sold to me as a Hardy Chicago, but the leaf looks nothing like the leaves of the two other HC's I have.  That tree is living a a pot far too small, in bad growing medium,  and has yet to give me a fig.  I will give it a better site this fall.

Agree with Jason.

Thanks to you both.  I went out and cut a ripe fig, compared it to the Brunswick pictures here on F4F and they look very much alike.  Considering that the Brunswick is well adapted to the SW and drier parts of the South, Brunswick may well be what I have.  It certainly has survived well in Tulsa and is growing well for me.

Now how about taking a look at the Granny Walker fig? 

The center leaf from my Hardy Chicago (in the picture I posted) is NOT an HC.    What it comes down to is that Plant Ranch in Chicago sold me a pussy willow that vines and does not bloom and a Hardy Chicago that looks nothing at all like the ones I got from members of this forum. 

Waaaaah!  I have three Tennessee Mountain figs and a ten-foot high in-ground Celeste, all look the same, all making figs about the diameter of a quarter.  Those figs had better taste good or I am going to have to chop down a big tree.
Ox

i think the 2nd and 3rd pics have too many features which are shared amongst many fig trees, whereas the 1st has pretty unique features which limit the field a lot, make it easier to make a suggestion.  the 2nd and 3rd pics are actually really close in relation - I have more leaf variation in my in-ground BT than those pics display, so ... I believe they could be the same, they look similar enough (strange - 3rd pic looks nothing like 2nd).

Jason:
The third picture shows one leaf each off three trees.  All were sold to me as "Hardy Chicago". 

The first and third leaves are off plants from a nursery in Alabama and from one of the members here.  The center leaf is from a plant sold to me by Plant Ranch (on the net) in Chicago. 

That center leaf does not look at all like the first and third.  So far I've not gotten a fig from that tree; next year will tell the tale.

Hi Ox, yes, Plantranch has a bad rep. I bought a HC from them too, and was not even a fig plant. Consider yourself fortunate that at least you recieved a fig,lol. I wish I could help on your I.D., but haven't a clue.

Ok, but here.... you want to talk about leaf variation in a single species?

Look at these:

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=4828725

And for another example, here is my in-ground BT:

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/show_single_post?pid=41210339&postcount=20

And it's even more exaggerated when they're small, check these out:

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=4582262

The shape you're shwing is "generally" the same, I would wait till it fruits and see what you got. 

I am amazed at how much they vary between the same variety, and how much they can be exactly the same between different varieties.

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