Let me show you the Season's PINGO DE MEL.
May be the most widespread cultivar im this District, It's a Common type and has many names varying with the Regions. Sweet and tasty when fresh immediately after pickup, it makes an extremely good dry fig.

Francisco

looks delicious!

pingo de mel is same as kadota, the literature says. do you agree with it, seu Francisco?

Grassa,

The literature I have read says this is not Kadota. 

This is supposedly a caprafig that is edible and does go by several names. Some of these are Gillete, St. john, and Croisic. There are a few of us on the forum who are working with this fig variety all basing out of a tree I believe in Seattle, Wa. 

This Pingo de Mel pic does not look like a Gillette pic....

Francisco, thanks again for the nice photos. Please give us the synonyms you are aware of.

Gorgi,

Do you have any good photos to share? Mine is only on its second year of growth and not looking to get fruit for another two years or so. 

amazing.
what is the price on 1 kg in the market for these?

Fellow members,

Thank you for looking at pictures, commenting and bringing up new questions.


Grasa, That is a very good question. In fact in many tech. papers and reports we see and read ,  people say that Pingo de Mel is same as Kadota , Gillette , Croisic, etc..
My people accepts other synonimia and say that it is similar to Moscatel, Rainha, Moscatel de Odeáxere, Materneta, Passarinha, Sete camadas, etc .. etc..these,  all synonyms on this district, ALL  names already appearing on very old reports..
I believe that only through laboratorial and field testing it will be possible to understand what did happen in fact with this cultivar.

Most of the  PINGO DE MEL figs available in markets around my place do not show this dense pulp and honey colors.  They are somehow drier, and of much lighter colors, some displaying almost white pulps.

What I may say to SEGeo is that, in my opinion, I cannot see how it could be an edible Caprifig
Have showed in this forum, not long ago, an unidentified fig with some (not many) gall flowers with larvae, certainly not edible... but tasted the skin and whitish meat and they were sweet !
On the outside there were some similarities (shape and color and ostiole) with Pingo de Mel

Agree with George, it is much diff from Gillete.

Eli, I am told that the markets now display the following varieties :
Lampo Preto -from the North, ripens 1 month after the southern brebas,,
Preto Temporão
Inchários Preto and Branco
Sofenos
Cachopeiros

all price between 4.5 and 6 Euros per Kilogram

Finally,I must say that the figs shown on above pictures were pollinised,...and I cannot avoid that!!

Fracisco

Sounds like more than 1 fig is labeled Pingo de Mel.