Last fall I saved some cuttings for myself and sent out some to friends.  Among those I saved were supposedly three of the Joe Morley Paradiso, the one that Maggie insists is the true Paradiso (and which I call the Real Eyetalian Paradiso, or REP). 

I started those cuttings early in the year and they are now about a foot tall and growing well.  The problem is that their leaves are NOT the REP, they look more like the Bayernfeige Violetta, from which I also took a few cuttings, and I have no way of knowing if this is so. 

I have nearly twenty of the Paradiso rooting out in another barrel.  I am sure of those because they were never near any other cuttings, but the three already potted and growing are just mystery plants at this time.

What I suspect is that when I put the cuttings away for the winter I lost the tag off the B. Violetta cuttings. 

OH DARN; no wonder we sometimes get mystery plants from nurseries.
Ox

Until you find what they are, just call them Repa Bioletta.

Ox:
You will know in time which one is which.
The Morle Paradiso leaves are pretty obvious in their appearance.
By the way, what is your opinion of the Morle Paradiso in terms of taste, sweetness, etc.?
Thanks much friend.

LOL, Ottawan:  REPA Bioletta they are.

Leon:  I think the bronze Paradiso is a great fig.  Sweet, juicy, moderately large.
It WILL split and sour in wet weather but in July and August here we seldom have wet weather, and not much in September. 

  I'm no expert, but I'd like to have an orchard full of these.  I could sell every one of them to the people who come to my neighbors peach farm.  (Providing I was industrious enough to get out there and pick them early in the morning)

I am really surprised that there are no fresh figs for sale in the South.  In all the time I lived at home, on the Texas coast, not one fresh fig in the stores though there were fig trees in town that grew well and made figs without being tended.  I remember one that reached to the second story windows on an old hotel there.  They are much hardier than citrus, and a few people (Including my mother) kept citrus trees going.
Ox