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Pomona onlus - botanical conservatory figs south Italy

Pomona onlus - botanical conservatory figs south Italy



http://www.pomonaonlus.it/

Have a nice day America !

Vladimiro 
Italy

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Festival of the figs:



Festival of Marittima Lecce Italy
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I enjoyed both videos, thank you

Jennifer
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nice vids thanks for sharing !

AUSTIN
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viva Italia!
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There is another nice video from Pomona Onlus that is worth seeing.   This one show the involvement of children with their fruit tree conservatory.   Other fruit trees are shown such as the medlar, etc., but mostly figs.   
Ingevald
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Very nice. Thx 4 sharing. I think the first fig in the first video was Zingarella. I hope to have my first one this summer -- can't wait.
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Ingevald,
great video,thanks for sharing it.Ciao,
Giuseppe
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Originally Posted by Ingevald
There is another nice video from Pomona Onlus that is worth seeing.   This one show the involvement of children with their fruit tree conservatory.   Other fruit trees are shown such as the medlar, etc., but mostly figs.   
Ingevald


In this video you can see the two striped figs, the first is 'Panachee' and the second is 'Rigato del Salento' it is striped but more white. There is also a genetic study which states their difference by the University of Lecce.
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Thanks for these - enjoyed them .
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Great Video's  Thanks A Lot !
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Merci!
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Yes,The first cultivar in the first Video,is Zingarella(nero),in this case the nero word,pinpoint the color of the ripe fig,not the cultivar.
Too Bad in my climate it was ,having a big problem with frost.
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Nice to see them picking ripe figs from the tree and eating them on the spot...here we are in the middle of Feb. longing for spring....oh well...      :)
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i enjoyed them !!!!grazia
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Originally Posted by mgginva
Very nice. Thx 4 sharing. I think the first fig in the first video was Zingarella. I hope to have my first one this summer -- can't wait.


Congratulations!
You're right !
It is Zinagarella .
yes, nero is the color  black.



Below you can see many varieties of  Italian figs:

http://www.ficuscarica.com/carica.html
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One day I will find someone with a healthy Zingarella tree ,and get some cuttings,because the original tree in US,from where  Richard Watts got the cuttings,was someone on the east coast,according to Richard Watts.
I am sure it was ,an Italian importation,and the tree is totally healthy,lacking FMV,and so hardy enough to grow here in NJ.
One thing is fact:The cultivar is well known in Italy,and very much appreciated,and planted,and that is Why the presenter of the Video stopped right by that tree to offer a sample,of ripe fruit.
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Originally Posted by Herman2
One day I will find someone with a healthy Zingarella tree ,and get some cuttings,because the original tree in US,from where  Richard Watts got the cuttings,was someone on the east coast,according to Richard Watts.
I am sure it was ,an Italian importation,and the tree is totally healthy,lacking FMV,and so hardy enough to grow here in NJ.
One thing is fact:The cultivar is well known in Italy,and very much appreciated,and planted,and that is Why the presenter of the Video stopped right by that tree to offer a sample,of ripe fruit.


Is not so simple!
The variety of fig tree 'Zingarella' has spread to southern Italy and isn't known here in the north of Italy.
Italy has a very complicated story, you Americans have to think that at a distance of 30 miles it comes with a dialect different from mine, and when people speak in dialect very close I can't understand, 
At 30 miles from here there is the province of Ferrara where they eat dishes different from mine, there is a different story from my area, and the names of varieties of plants change.

Imagine what cultural distance with the south of Italy...

Italy has a history of municipalities, every city had its own prince and was often at war with neighboring cities.

Here in Italy have passed all the rulers of history, Romans, Arabs, barbarians, the French, the Spaniards, and in my area until 1850 belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and every people has left its traditions and its typical variety of fruit trees.
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The Pomona Italian, Giorgio Gallesio (Finalborgo, 1772 - Florence, 1839) is the first and most important collection of images and descriptions of fruits and fruit trees made in Italy.

Was used by the noble families of Europe receive the paintings of fruit varieties paid subscription, and paintings by G. Gallesio are important to understand which varieties were present in Italy in 1800 and what are still present today:

http://www.pomonaitaliana.it/pomona/fichi.htm

If you own one of these varieties of fig tree know that has a long history.
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Viaggiatore971. You hit the nail and the head. That is a great distinction that we in the US don't get, because our culture is so homogenized.
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Viaggiatore971. You hit the nail and the head. That is a great distinction that we in the US don't get, because our culture is so homogenized.


I Italian,  I envy your sense of belonging to a Nation,
here before you belong to a city and then we are Italian




I live near these walls that have only 1000 years
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But I envy you the culture, history and tradition that extends reaches beyond memory. Once the immigrants reached the States, after just a few generations, all that was lost, except vestiges here and there in little phrases, or holiday dishes. That tower and those walls pictured speak a lot.
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grazie mille!

Interesting summer time green graft demo in the video!
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