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Olympian? Could anybody to help to identify

Searching for help to identify this fig. Found in an abandoned Hedge. 
The pictures are taken in the middle of October when night temperatures dropped under 3 degrees Celsius.
Now, in late of October located in Central Europe (City of Bratislava) it is still with main crop ripening on branches but very high. Brebas have not seen due to found this fall.
The taste is sweet, fruit-plumb flavoured.
That one on snapshots is little damaged by insect.
I am sure it is not TB. I assume it could be  Olympian.
Thanks
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/sfelzt2xa7xulch/AADrGzjXmLzxg3XyljfYThvYa?dl=0

I could be wrong, but I don't think so. Whatever you have is certainly interesting though.

Does not look like Olympian, but does look like Osborne Prolific.

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The 5 lobed leaves look awfully close to Olympian leaves and so does the color of fruit, but there are many other fig varieties with these characteristics. You probably need a genetic test for confirmation, since the Olympian fig has distinct genetics than other figs.

Probably not Olympian. 

Well, I am at the beginning as I see, however some indicators of comments help me at least little.Thanks a lot.
I am rooting  some cutting and will examinate brebas on mothertree during next comming season.

Here is my update about unknown fig found in october 2016 in an abandoned hedge. (see previous notes here, in this link).
Now in 2017, after harsh winter and snowy spring it survived absolutelly as the best of all I know around.

i.e. It is very well hardy frost. No die back at all.

Moreover it has BREBA. (Beside a maincrop).
Selfpolinated/parthenocarpic.
Today, 18 th. of july  I collected first Breba. Resized1.jpg  Resized2.jpg  Resized3.jpg  Resized4.jpg 
This year the season is slightly extended due to a cold snowy march. This means when a spring is warm the breba crop could be at the beginning of july.

The BREBA fruit describtion as seen on photos attached.
Outside is Green-Bronze collor when the breba is ripe.
Inside is pale ivory pulp color.
Skin little chewy and pulp no juicy that much but soft.
Taste is sweet and creamy well balanced.
Fertile Breba crop.
Please any hint what sort could it be ?


This fig is Robert_K's Brataslava Unknown.  Or whatever name with an Unknown tag you want to give it.  Figs found in the wild can virtually never be identified with certainty.  There is so much similarity among leaves and figs. And much variability on the same variety.  Figs 'discovered' like this should never be distributed with the name of a known fig to avoid possible confusion or mistake. 

Just enjoy it, and share with others under the unknown name if it is worth sharing.

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Here's an Olympian fruit.





Probably not Olympian,especially considering where it was found,Olympian is prety much exclusively distributed in the US(though certainly came from somewhere in the old world originally).Some folks have said Osborne Prolific,which I know is distributed in European nurseries, another variety which is often said to be the same is Neveralla/Archipel,although they could just be very similar to Osbornes Prolific and there appear to be confusion on those 3 varieties as to which is actually which,they could all be the same,or there could be 2 figs with 3 names,or even 4 or more sold under 3 names,who knows.

The best thing is to monitor it over a period of time,maybe grow it alongside Osborne Prolific(which is available inside the EU)to see if it is the same.In the meantime you have an interesting unknown fig which produces in Slovakia,which is pretty awesome.

You can see Nereralla/Archipel here: htps://sites.google.com/site/kiwifruitsalad2/f3-2-medium-colored-figs

Interesting comments. Thanks.

Seem it is not Olympian although leaves would indicate it.
The topic talking about "Olympian" was from autum 2016 when I was at the very beginning of this "investigation".

The Breba has different shape and structure of pulp as well. Also availability of Olympian here appx 15-20 y. ago (estimated age of the tree) was minimal in this location.That is true. Osborn  Prolific was probably much available although not seen that much, that time in official garden shops. It could come from Baumax chain shops or via private specialized garden project services. 

Maybe it looks more like Marseiles white aka Lattarola. I mean the breba inside structure and leaves, isn't it? Those are also pretty good hardy frost.

Enclosed are photos of>
-Leave pattern spring
-Leave pattern autum
-Breba july 2017
-Maincrop fig october 2016 Resized5.jpg  Sch_1.jpg  Resized1.jpg  Sch 6.jpg


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