Does anyone know where I can get a cutting of the fig variety a-10-5?
It isn't listed on the available varieties list for the germplasm repository at UC Davis, but it did show up among a lot of pictures of their varieties. 
-- I have an interest in certain characteristics in particular, and it seems like something of use to me, although the one pictured on their site did look virusy perhaps.  I'd really like to get a plant or cuttings of the variety.  Also, does anyone know anything about the qualities of the fruit & tree? Thanks for any info.

Wm.
TX

Has anyone ever seen the a-10-5 fig or tasted its fruit?
-- Is it known by any other names/s perhaps?

Where have you seen it listed?

It was seen on the UC Davis germplasm repository site but is not on their list of available varieties. 

I haven't seen it, even on their site. This is their complete list: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?16801 and then select to top "List" button.

I found it on a profile of UC Davis fig photos.  It can be seen by searching the designation a-10-5 online (Yahoo! search). 
-- So, I know it exists/(existed): I hope it is not now extinct.

OK, I figured this out.

A-10-5 refers to the orchard position of the tree - and at the time that Ken Love took the pix, in 2007, the orchard map did not list a varietal name for the tree, only the DFIC accession number, so Ken labeled it with the orchard position designation. So, there is NO A-10-5 accession, only a mislabelling of an actual accession

The tree still does not have a name, exactly, but it listed as A1-133, which corresponds to DFIC0164.5 which is one of 10 seedlings listed under the DFIC0164 number (hence the deicmal/fractional numbers). I do not know if the A1-133 designation applies to all 10 seedlings, but I believe it does. It may be the only accession in the collected that was not received as a tree or cutting, but, rather, as seeds when it originated from Albania. Is is also the only accession with decimal/fractional numbering in its accession number.

More info, see: http://figs4fun.com/Info/USDA_Accession_A1-133.pdf

Some of the group were quite edible, others not.

Pix are at http://figs4fun.com/Thumbnail_A1_133.html from the 2007 season. I will add the ones from the 2008 season in the next few days.

Thank you!
Yes, I just also received an email response from Howard Garrison at UC Davis.  He said pretty much the same thing.  The seed that this seedling came from is from the same seedlot (collected by Ned Garvey) as 8 other fig seedling planted in that field where it is now.  The seeds did come from Albania.  I guess they wanted to show relation among the seedling and may not have been sure whether any of them would amount to anything until mature.  The site you gave mentioned the fruit as being insipid, but that could be conditional.  For example, some old fig info I've read discounts Pastiliere as rather insipid and useless for some area while detaining how it was regarded quite highly in another climate area.  I am interested in the genetic potential, and I think that even if the figs seem insipid, the genetics are still there for that and other aspects of the plant that I'm interested in.
--- Again, thanks.

wrayn