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LOL, I don't want to start any arguments, but my Texas Everbearing looks as if it will be the first fig here to offer dessert. 

It certainly has a strange growth habit, compared to my other trees.  It stems out from the base and has three separate branches growing almost parallel to the ground.  It is a small tree, but it is loaded with figs and those figs are now heavy enough to bend down the branches even more.  Is this common to the variety? 

And is Texas Everbearing just another name for Brown Turkey?  It seems that half the figs ever mentioned here have multiple names.

I'm going to re-tag all my HC's as Muncibeddu;  I like the sinister implications of the Sicilian name.  I am almost certain that my stock originated in the family compound of a Mafia don and came thru Chicago.  How appropriate that a fig with such antecedents should come thru Chicago!!!!!!

Moreover, I am going to re-tag my Black #1 as the AFGHAN WARLORD.  It supposedly was collected from the garden of the Governor of some God-forsaken Afghan province whose name I disremember, but my son in law says that he has been there and it is a beautiful place.  Black #1 is such a puny name.
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 Ox, you have been watching way to much TV.
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Ciao Ox,     why?  


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Ox, Texas Everbearing could probably be anything from Celeste to Brown Turkey, and beyond. It is one of those names, like the ones with the word honey or strawberry in them, that is almost meaningless anymore.

If it tastes good, and performs well, the name is not important.
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naming figs is something too many people have done too much of.
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Hey OX,
 
I've got one of those HC's that like your Texas Everbearing grows two branches at right angles parallel to the ground. This season they have grown another 18 inches or more. Takes up a lot of room. 
 
Idea!  Sell all the HC's (Muncibeddu), and Texas Everbearing to the Japanese espalier fig growers and they won't have to train them...they already grow that way by themselves!
 
 
 
 
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LOL, Thanks for the comments and information, fellow fig-nuts.  I think that it is amusing, yet wonderful, that we have all these figs that came from goodness knows where and picked up names as they passed from one hand to another. 

Kathleen's Black, Martin's Unknown, Willow Street Fig, Chicago Hardy, all the variants of Celeste (is my Bayernfeige Violetta just a variant of Celeste?), the Tennessee Mountain Fig and Sal's Corleone.  At least three Paradiso's (and my own Real Eyetalian Paradiso, plus Mildred's fig and Granny Walker's fig) 

Then we have the Marseilles VS and a few more that are undoubtedly just really good strains of some unknown to us but old and well known fig. 

As my trees grow I am beginning to suspect that my Granny Walker's fig is possibly the dark Paradiso.  Mildred's fig sure looks like a Celeste.  Since I own a Texas Everbearing I probably do not need a Brown Turkey. 

Come on UCD Davis.  Get that fig genome project into high gear.
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Well, after spending the last 8 days in Unterfohring for work, which is inches outside Munich (Munchen) in the Bavaria (Bayern) region, I am amazed anything is called "Bayernfeige" (Bayern Feige = Bavarian Fig). 

In all of the walking I did in small towns around Munich, all I saw everywhere was freaking chestnut and cherry trees, not a single other fruit tree.  It was a bit of a letdown.  I actually brought something feasible to cut with, I was eager to bring back something cold-hardy to share.
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Jason:
Some nursery outfit called :"Plattner" named the fig and patented it.  Mine came with the Plattner tag on it, though I bought it from Cloud Mountain. 

I'm a bit long in the tooth now, and disinclined, to go traipsing around the world, but surely someone here will haul themselves off to the German countryside and find a fig tree.
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