Made two videos about these two. Enjoy!

Hi Ross, you're right, that's not Pastiliere. Looks like maybe they sent you Lattarula. The Azores dark looks like a very good fig. Thanks for the videos.

Pastiliere
 
 
 

Is yours from Raintree, Gary?

Yes Ross. I have 2 of them, it is one of the best here in my climate.

Thanks for the help, Gary. Do you have anymore leaf pics by chance? Or a shot of the interior. I just want to be 100% sure, and that'll at least give me something to compare to when they send me a replacement.

Sure Ross.
 
 

Well, what do you guys think this is? 

I just read on the internet another source saying the transition between breba and main is nearly seamless. Perhaps this explains the confusion with Rouge de Bordeaux/pastilliere and whether it's producung two crops or one.

This is interesting, found it in another thread on Hirta. It explains the history of it and Pastilliere.

http://www.planetfig.com/cultivars/fcveng8586.html

http://frenchfigfarm.com/fig-trees/pastilerie

This nursery is saying that the Brebas are what doesn't hold ever, and the main is what will eventually hold after maturity. Kind of weird. That's on rouge de Bordeaux pastilliere.

Nice videos Ross!

My Pastilliere looks like Gary's. 
Great tasting unifera fig so it only produces main crop. 
Supposed to be cold hardy and early ripener so I am going to try planting in ground next year. 

"If this one is from Raintree, I just looked it up on their site and found that their strain of Pastilliere is the Japanese one, not the one synonymous with Rouge de Bordeaux from France."

Devlsgro, why imply that there are two strains?  According to the planetfig website the Pastilliere was brought to Europe from Japan in the 1800's and is synomous with Rouge de Bordeaux.  I would assume that the Raintree one is the same as the one that is in France unless there is reason to believe otherwise.

Edit: I now see this was already discussed in another thread where it was pointed out that the Baud website also refers to Pastilliere and Rouge de Bordeaux as synonyms.

Pino, that's great that you have gotten Pastilliere to fruit in container culture.  Many folks have had problems with fruit drop and have given up on it.  Did you treat it any differently than your other figs?  Mine is one season old and I am thinking of planting it in ground next Spring.

No, mine originated from Paolo Belloni's collection in southern Italy.  I have no idea where his came from but he considers it one of his favorites. Unfortunately, I don't have leaf photos so I can't compare it to photos of Pastilliere shown in the other thread and the Raintree version shown here.  I'll have to check next year.

Devlsgro, if you do end up growing both the European-sourced Pastilliere and the Raintree one please report here on differences you see, if any.  I know what you mean about supposed synonymous figs turning out to be a bit different sometimes.  I wonder if in some cases they actually are genetically the same but have adapted to different growing conditions and thus (at least for a certain length of time) exhibit different characteristics.