Ok i was browsing just fruit & exotics or it might have been another nursery but anyway. They had a Capri fig for sake and description was has some pollen sweet with male flowers. Ok i thought you couldn't eat capri figs

You can eat anything, once  :)   Goats routinely eat caprifigs, that's how they got their name.  Gillette (Croisic), Saleeb, Enderud, Brawley, Rosso and Cordelia are the ones I know about that produce edible caprifigs.  There are probably others, depending on how loose you want to be with the term, 'edible'  :)

Gillette and Cordelia may be synonyms.  There's a Pingo de Mel that's also listed as a synonym but it's probably not the same as the PdMs that Adriano is selling.

I've eaten Gillette and it's not going to make it on the top 100 fig list but it's not terrible.

Simply stated, caprifigs are fig trees that produce figs that have pollen inside of them. Of course, you could eat them if you wanted to, but they are not sweet and are spongy.

Just think of caprifigs as pollinators. They pollinate the fruit bearing figs (eg. Celeste, brown turkey, black mission, and the thousands of other varieties). All fruit bearing figs can ACCEPT the pollination, but not all fruit bearing figs NEED the pollination.

And yes, some caprifigs taste better than others.

Hope this helps!

the figs4fun  varieties section does not say gillette/ croisic
is a capri fig.
other syn. listed are   pingo de mel,  mel,  st john and cordelia.

In the section of 'Croisic', it says "The only edible caprifig".

Thanks everyone. Just when i saw the add they made it sound like it was compairable to a female fig in flavor

ok only looked at gillette.
so the confusion with fig names continues
if the above mentioned syn. are all the same fig
then all descriptions for each syn in each section
should be saying they are edible capri figs. 

It's probably better if caprifigs taste weird and are not eatable. I think my large unknown fig in the back yard might be a caprifig. It put out a third flush of figs late fall and they all stayed on the tree until last week. Then the birds started eating them. Now all the figs are pecked away to little stubs. The wasps' survival may be tied into caprifigs tasting too bad to eat.

MARA Very good thoght. I THINK YOUR CORRECT