A few months ago, I bought a fig from Lowes from Dewars Nursery here in Florida labeled "Ischia". It had a picture of a green fig on the tag with the caption "flavorful red flesh".
This is the first set of pictures below. I did a little research on this fig and from what I found, the leaf pattern on my fig doesn't quite look like a Green Ischia (GI). I even called Dewars Nursery and they assured me they do grow GI figs and that the fig is a green fig, tight eye and red meat. I decided to keep it and potted it in a 3 gal black nursery pot. On a side note, it seems to grow in this weeping pattern.
Low and behold, I was in Lowes yesterday and they had just received a shipment of figs with the familiar Ischia label. But this time, the leaf pattern looks more like what my research leads me to believe a GI should look like, so I bought one. All of them had these little rust spots, but I guess that is typical for this time of year.
So, I am wondering which of these distinctly different figs is the real GI? I guess I will keep them both and hopefully be able to put an ID on both next year.
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