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Panache, NOT!!

I saw plants labeled as Panache today at Home Depot, which originated from LaVerne Nursery, in CA, which were clearly NOT Panache. No stripes in the wood, and no stripes on the fruit.  Buyer beware.

Just had the same experience from lowes.. The brown turkey trees and kadota trees looked identical..Who knows what you get from these box stores..Talked to a local guy at a farm stand he put out a sign that he was selling fig trees..Well when I asked him about the fig trees he said they are white fig trees. I asked what Variety he said Italian white figs. From the Italian family up the street.. Alot of people are very generic about fig trees these same people only know of red apples....

Years and years ago, the very first two fig trees I bought from a now defunct nursery that at the time was quite prestigious, were labled as "Brown Turkey" and "Black Mission".  I knew nothing about figs at the time, other than that I wanted a couple.

They turned out to be Green Ischia and Magnolia.  The GI was a very happy discovery, the Magnolia, not.

Just as recently I discovered the pitfalls of buying from Houston Patio and Garden.  Wanted a dwarf nectarine to grow in a container and bought one a couple years ago and labled as a dwarf nectarine variety.  Oh, it's a dwarf alright... a dwarf PEACH. Nice, fuzzy little fruit.  Oh well, at least it's fruit, right?

There just seems to be more misinformation about figs, and the labeling at the big retailers seems to be more often than not incorrect.

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