Yesterday I planted a new heirloom fig that I had discovered a couple of years ago. I have not yet reported on this discovery.
When I was on one of "fig hunting" missions in South Louisiana, I came across an elderly lady who had a fig tree which had those pink/purple leaf stems and red buds on her tree. As previously reported, I am a sucker for ANY fig tree which has those traits as I "believe" that is the mark of a flavorful fig. I had my Ken Love fig poster with me. It opened the door to an interesting fig discussion and this old lady really spilled the beans!!
She told me that her tree was a "Black Mission" and that two elderly and very plump ladies from Texas have bought "the rights" to all of the fig fruit that her tree produces. Never heard of such an arrangement before......found this kinda interesting. She said that the two plump ladies loved the figs from this tree and claimed that it looked like a black mission fig to them. So, the Cajun lady now calls her tree a Black Mission. However, the fruit that was on the tree looked different to me.
Anyhow, she told me she was Cajun and was married to a guy (now deceased) who was an Italian immigrant. Her husband had come over with his parents and grand parents to settle in South Louisiana. The Italian grandfather brought cutting of this fig from Sicily and propagated this tree.
The lady told me that it produces figs when all of the Celeste figs stopped producing figs. They do not drop nor sour. Her late husband loved to give them to his friends after their Celeste trees no longer were fruiting.
Any how, I ended up with my own tree and just got it planted in the ground yesterday. From the information that I gathered there is no telling what's the variety. This latest heirloom acquisition will give me much pleasure in trying to ID it. I will post pictures of this one later on in the season....within this thread.
Dan
Semper Fi-cus