Here is another mystery fig (found at Andy Mariani's in Morgan Hill, CA, the first week of July 2009).

An enormously long breba fruit, golden flesh, mild honey flavor (you know how watery those brebas can be) a variety he has forgotten the name of. . . have not made it back there to sample main crop.

Any speculation?

Pied de Boeuf is the closest thing I have seen.

I hate to get on my Soap Box but this seems like as good of an opportunity as has come recently on this Forum with several current "guess this Fig" posts!

We can continue to play the guessing game, or we can build on Ira Condit's "Fig Varieties: A Monograph" (downloadable as a PDF from my website) by creating a Fig Variety Photographic Identification Database.  I maintain that a combination of Fig exterior, interior, eye, and dominant leaf form photograph is a much more reliable method than guessing what variety the Fig is from partial information or written descriptions.  A picture really is worth 1,000 words!

Please visit my website:  http://sites.google.com/site/kiwifruitsalad2
to download Condit's Monograph and my .doc proposal for creating the Photographic Database, as well as looking at the limited number of varieties that I have been able to photograph Brebas and leaves of.

If you have several varieties in your collection and want to help by contributing photos for the Database, let me know.  I'll post this same message on the other "Guess this Fig" posts to make sure everybody on this Forum sees it.

Happy Growing,   kiwibob   Seattle

Does anyone know why there is more Horse's Ass's than Horses?

That looks to me like longue d'aout.

Perhaps we are thought of as "dumbasses" and must be brought to the trough and forced to drink. Sounds like someone wants to give us another dose of ''CHANGE''.

That said, I do think its a noble undertaking and to a group like us it probably has merit but standing on a soap box excites me as much as someone talking from a tele-prompter.

Kiwibob,
Jon's varietal page seems to have that covered with fig pictures , leaves , sometimes part of plant etc,etc.
I think there will always be questions such as "what type of fig is this"
which actually makes good discussion .

Gene,
That is exactly how his statement came across to me too!

Well said my Friend!

I agree with Bass the closest I seen is Longue D'aout.

Whatever this fig is, I do not have it.
Sure looks a "long", "hanging" and  "wrinkled"  fig to me ...

If it its a breba, it could be anything.
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I have to disagree it is not Longue D'Out, look at Axiers pics of this tree

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=2976855&highlight=longue

The inside is red, not golden.
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Here is my Kadota breba which were tasty, long and stretchy with brownish undertones, and very common in Cali:

Short of being real expert on fig varieties and its botany, there Will always be an element of "Guess" based on our own observation with our figs or what we remember from other posts or from 'F4F varieties "picture". Otherwise someone with limited experience like myself will not dare to open mouth (... no that is not better, I GUESS).
Having said that, we should be welcoming to all just like we welcome newcomers in posting and not turn off people.
As far as the database suggested by kiwibob is not a bad idea since one already exists here at http://figs4fun.com/Varieties.html which is very accessible, maintained, sustained and can be supported with pictures from authenticated fig plants.
Well, that is my 50c worth (inflation!).

Well, thanks for all the guesses and suggestions. Condit is a great resource, and I agree a photo is worth 1,000 words. That is why I post photos of mine I think you all might like to see, and sometimes speculate on.
 
I wish I took a picture of the flesh, we gobbled it down so quickly! Unfortunately, my mention of the (golden) flesh color is only from a distant memory, faded by time, and perhaps the immaturity of the breba we sampled. That is, it could have been very pale red. . . ?

I am leaning toward the lovely 'Longue D'Out', very distinctive.

The breba Kadota pictured has a very long stem that the mystery fig does not. They both do share a long neck, but the mystery fig in the photo is twice the size of the Kadota breba, about 6 inches long.

I will try to revisit this mystery fig in the future, to get more detailed descriptions.

I can almost swear I've seen this unripe fig at Adrianos.

Those figs give me the creeps.

Yes, those figs in Jon post do look like they are from outer space or something alien.

(2001 a space oddssey - 1968)