UC Davis pix No. 27

The goal of this trip was to photograph as many of the cultivars as possible. Some were earlier season figs, and no longer available, and some later season figs, not yet ripe. However, the vast majority were available. Unless otherwise noted, these were of acceptable flavor, worth growing, but not necessarily exceptional.

Pseudocarica

Not edible.



143-36

Definite winner, and confirmed by testimony of others.









Karayaprak

Also one of the better flavored figs.

>>>  Pseudocarica
>>>  Not edible.
... (!?)...
Please explain some more...
George (NJ)

I don't know what "psuedocarica" means, but "not edible" means its a weed.

Thanks for posting the pics, Jon.  I was having buyer's remorse on Beall (received this year) and Karayprak (received last year).  I feel better now.  One of the Karayapraks along with Ischia Green, Rattlesnake Island, Aldo (from Leon via George) and a handful of others are trying to produce fruit at this time in Houston.    There are yet more that have started pushing out new growth rather vigorously.  I've got an oscillating fan on and pointed north to keep the cold air away.

~james

gorgi, "not edible" means you don't eat it.
 
From Hildardia

"Brawley. A seedling produced by Francis Heiny, Brawley, from a cross of Kadota with pollen of Ficus pseudo-carica."

and

"Ficus pseudo-carica Miq. This species, indigenous to Eritrea and Abyssinia, was introduced into California by Dr. F. Franceschi, of Santa Barbara, in 1902; sometimes designated as ^ÒAbyssinian caprifig.^Ó Like F. palmata, it has been used for hybridizing with F. carica. See Franceschi (1912), Rixford (1912, 1918a), Rixford and Heiny (1911), Trabut (1922), and Condit (1947, 1920a); the last with illustration of fruit and leaves.

The tree has slender, willowy branches, with dormant buds violet; leaves small, mostly 3-lobed; sinuses medium; base truncate; texture thin, velvety; petioles very pubescent, russet in color; mosaic spots prominent, with some leaves dwarfed or malformed. (Plate 13.)

Mamme figs small, pyriform, with prominent, slender neck and long, slender stalk; color violet-purple; interior white; staminate flowers present.

Profichi small, elongated-pyriform, with slender neck and long stalk; ribs narrow; eye protruding; color brown to purplish black; interior white. (Plate 6.)"

Thanks,
All I wanted to hear was that the pseudocarica is another fig species as much as
the palmata is, they may also be synonyms? See link.
Whereas the (regular) non edible caprifigs, as we know them,
still belong to the carica species.
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?16949
http://www.figweb.org/Ficus/Subgenus_Ficus/Section_Ficus/Subsection_Ficus/Ficus_palmata.htm

But, gorgi, you leave such "open doors", that can't always be resisted.

Perhaps more interesting is the comment about FMV spotting on the leaves, "way back when". Nothing new under the sun.

Sorry if I may have sounded rude, that was not my intention.
I had never heard of the F.pseudocarica species before.
Now with your info, and some more research, I even see
it listed at UCD (DFIC0158).
http://www.ars.usda.gov/Main/docs.htm?docid=12871
Not that I am interested in having it, because there are no fig wasps here in NJ.
Speaking of  wasps, here is a link about the blastophaga psenes,
which only lists the F.carica and F.palmata species as hosts.
http://www.figweb.org/Fig_wasps/Agaonidae/Blastophaga/Blastophaga_psenes.htm
P.S. I am coming to the conclusion that F.pseudocarica and F.palmata are the same.
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/acc/search.pl?accid=DFIC0158

gorgi, You weren't rude. You just left yourself wide open for a little fun. ;-)

Jon, Where does the Karayaprak fig originate?

Karyaprak is a region/state in central Turkey, so I would assume...