This is a delicious fig with 7/10 sweetness and 9/10 berry taste that is ripe in mid July. Has a closed tight eye, no seed crunch and medium skin softness.(these photos are from last year July 25th zone 8b) . Anyone have any idea??? The owner thought it was Kadota but he has two other typical Kadotas that do not look like this and they dont look like the Kadota that i have seen. The mother tree is huge!
              Unripe figs     

They sure look delicious!! Were you able to snag some cuttings?

Yeah they don't look like kadotas, or brunswick, or alma...hmm that's a tough one....maybe a type of improved Celeste?

Thanks for sharing! Good luck!

I agree with u, maybe a celeste type....except for the unripe figs which look nothing like celeste....I did get cuttings...I plan on going back when these are ripe and bartering with the owner for figs and cuttings.

Could also be Peter's Honey or Kadota.  The pics that Jon's varieties pages show for Peter's Honey have fruits that aren't as wide, but the Peter's Honey in my yard resembles the wide ones in your pics.  Leaves are consistent with your pics too.

Mike   central NY state, zone 5a

Hi Justin, they look very nice variety, how old is the tree if I may ask.
Maybe Calimirna?
check this website  to compare.

http://waynesword.palomar.edu/pljune99.htm

It's a Kadota.  That is something to be proud of!  The KING of Figdom!  Pure rich honey, with few seeds.  Not many can match it!

Suzi

Kadota

I thought the Kadota has a pear shape and is light inside/greenish outside, not reddish? 
Do they look differently grown under different conditions?

Justin,
here's an old post with pictures of leaves and fruit of an improved Celeste.
http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/giant-celeste-6528159?pid=1279556213#post1279556213

greenfig,
you're right. Those are characteristics of kadota. They do look different under different growing conditions, but I don't think they appear that different. The unknown looks like a brownish fig, and kadota is a lighter fig. Kadota or not, this unknown looks like a great fig!

Ok, i think the key to determining the identity of this fig will be to compare it's ripe fruit to the two other known Kadota trees  in this same yard. If there is a considerable difference in ripening time or fruit quality i think that will prove this may be something other than the standard nursery kadota. The standard kadota grown in the houston area is always bright green/faintly yellow when ripe and the inside is light pink.

i will keep everyone posted, thanks!

I wouldn't rule out Alma.  It has 1 lobe leaves like this in its repetoire and the fruit color is highly variable.  Another possibility might be BA-1.  Suzi, do you have photos of your Kadota fruit?  I've never seen one this dark yellow but my experience is very limited.  This is certainly a lot riper than most Kadotas are alowed to get.

rcantor, i think you may be onto something with BA-1...i had forgotten all about this fig. Dan has some photos on his cajun fig blog and they are nearly identical with the same ripening time in Louisianan as here in Houston. 

So... the difference in color between last year's fruit and this year's fruit is substantial. The fruit this year has no doubt been conditioned by the unusual amount of rain that we have had and the less than record temperatures. The taste was just as good as last year as described in my original post(yum berry flavor!) The Kadota's in the photo are from the same yard.
The owner planted this tree around 40 years ago and it was supposed to be a Kadota. I spoke to the homeowners for a while the other day and they gave me their phone number and took mine and said i could come back this winter for pruning and cuttings....wahoo!

For those of you who messaged me originally for cuttings i have started a list.

           

Very nice pictures and wonderful  figs !

Francisco

Nice looking fig

Yeah, it looks nothing like the Kadota. Those top pics with the orangish skin are really beautiful. All the figs pictured look really good, wish I had some ready.

Mike in Hanover, VA