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Portugal Black

This fig came to me in a trade.  Brought into Canada from Portugal by a Portuguese fellow and was labelled Portugal Black.

The brebas are definitely more reddish than black but they were delicious.  
Reminded me of that super taste of S. Italian figs when they are dead ripe.   Tied with my Melanzana for best breba taste so far this year.  

We have had a lot of rain spring and early summer and it seems many brebas have suffered but not Melanzana and not this fig so far.

Hopefully Francisco see this post because I know he says there are no figs in Portugal called black or dark so would love his ideas on this fig.

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Could it be the same as this one? 


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Pino,

It's probably a Lampa Preta breba or a São João Preto breba (sometimes they don't get that dark as the name implies and stay more reddish - specially the São João Preto)

Here's a Lampa Preta from a young tree:

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Cut open showing the lighter color pulp (the one on the right)
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São João Preto:

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The pulp color is almost identical to the Lampa Preto, but can be a bit more reddish in some years.


@Jamie, What great looking figs!
I also see definite similarity of my brebas with São João Preto.

@Timo, the breba look close will need to see the main crop and leaves.

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  • Sas

I had a real Melanzana from Scicily and finally discarded it. It kept dropping its fruit and probably needed the wasp.
It's a nice surprise when you're able to ripen those exotic varieties. Congratulations Pino.


Very nice figs. Hope their taste continue to improve

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Originally Posted by Sas
I had a real Melanzana from Scicily and finally discarded it. It kept dropping its fruit and probably needed the wasp. It's a nice surprise when you're able to ripen those exotic varieties. Congratulations Pino.
Hi Sas
I wish I had some special growing skills but all I do is watch the leaves mostly and take care of the fig plant.
Also climate is not so bad in Canada. I am at same latitude as N. Italy and N. California and get some strong sun and heat during summer.  Its just those cold winters that create all the work for me protecting the figs.  But the figs sleep through it.

Sorry to hear of your Melanzana.  Melanzana is actually a group of figs.  The ones I remember eating when I was a kid were long and actually looked like small eggplants.  The search for those is what started my fig adventure.

Still haven't found that one here but I know where the tree is in S. Italy and I am still planning to go get some of those cuttings.  At this point I have 3 different Melanzanas 2 of which are producing nicely.  I will post those later today.   The other melanzana I was sent cuttings this year and is growing nicely is from Cosenza and should also be nice.  

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