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royal fig

Here's a description from my friend who traveled through Europe on bike and tasted many figs.
"This was one of the best figs I ate over 2800 miles of tasting and hundreds of varieties. A green, firm rubbery skin. Very round, short stem. Brilliant red inside, very dense flesh, NOT hollow like some figs near the ostiole (solid flesh).Tart, raspberry flavor. Fantastic and predominant on the northwest Greek island of Samothraki, very near Turkey (though I never saw this fig in Turkey). A woman said it might be called the Royal fig. "

Royal fig on the left.


Oh boy
So many nice figs around and not enough time, space and heat!

Bass the inside looks pretty good.

I particularly like the combined look of the
green-skin/full-red-pulp. I hope that at least one from
the ~30 figs that between me, Henry and Jose collected
from GreekTown in MD and FL, turns out just like that?

Speaking of "Royal"... There is a fig (King & Queen) that has
similar skin/pulp colors, but a different shape.
Mine has not fruited yet. Belleclare:
78. VASILIKA SIKA (Greek, Athens) (King & Queen) (a) large, white, pear-shape blood-red center (2 crops)

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