Greetings all and Happy Friday

I wanted to share a few pictures of some UNK fresh figs that I recently purchased and consumed while on temporary duty to Prague, in the Czech Republic. I had been poking in and out of green grocer type stores when I happened across a small mom and pop fresh produce store. Among the many fresh fruits and veggies for sale ( including fresh wine in cask sold by the glass) were a few trays of fresh figs. i bought one kilo or so, which came to about 5 or 6 figs. So 6 figs weighed in at about 2.2 lbs. Not too shabby.

The fig type was not available or known by the seller, but I'm thinking probably brought in from Turkey, since many of the other produce was labeled as such.

Anyhow, just wanted to share these pix. Ogh, and they were very tasty considering their large size and fact they had been on sale for a few days.

Quick update: very nice and tasty, nice deep red to magenta on the inside, maybe a tad "pulpy/fleshy".

Bursa Siyahi

Very nice Mark.  And how cool that it's from Prague!  (a personal interest).  At first your title had me excited that maybe you had a tree that came from scion you got from a tree growing in Prague.  Still, very cool.  Interesting whatever the figs are too.  They sound huge.  Nice pics.

Mike

beautiful!

Wow!  You knew this question was coming:  How did they taste?  Did they resemble anything you've tasted here?  Were they red inside?  Juicy?

Suzi

Looks like bursa

Agree a lot of people in mid to eastern Europe do have Bursa Black.

Synonym-Bursa Siyah Incir

Description-

100% Smyrna type
needs caprifig fig wasp for polination
One of the best commercial varieties.
It is sweet, large in size, dark purple in color, and durable with a long shelf life.

My personal opinion….Col de Dame Noir is better.

greetings All:

I updated the original post with taste factor, and inside flesh coloring. Unfortunately, these were on the produce rack and not from the tree, so I was not able to bring back any cuttings to replicate here! Wonder if Dominick's "Bursa Siyah Incir" reflects it's' possible Incirlik, Turkey connection?

I do have a fig tree that can trace back its origin to Czech.

In the spring of 2012, I noticed this on the website of a local nursery:

Hana Czech Fig Ficus 'Hana'

There are many in that region of Europe that don't need the wasp. A few have even survived -25 C ( -14 F).

This is the commercial variety in turkey called the bursa syahi and shipped to all countries in Europe. Might not be grown and harvested there. Just how we get black mission in the east coast and grown in California.

Dominick, do you have any that have survived -14F?  (And that don't need the wasp)

Mike

No sorry I don't. See this thread :

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/quotfreckled-beautyquot-New-fig-variety-I-found-5958893?highlight=freckled+beauty