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Thanks for the heads up: I was lucky to grab one of the two remaining LSU Purple, left one for the next guy or gal.   Great price for a well developed plant!

I'm glad everyone could use the information to their benefit. I look forward to chatting with you zone5figger.

nice plant as well as price

The Black Spanish out of the Danbury store looks a little odd.  I have seen a fig tree with an occasional leaf like that but never the whole tree.
I wonder why are the leaves drooping like that?

Hi all, my first post! I purchased those whole food figs last year. I can tell you it's a great bargain. I bought a Black Spanish, a Celest and a Brown Turkey. I bought them around this time. I repotted them and trimmed about 1/3 off the branches in November . This year they are 4 to 4.4 ft tall with a couple dozen figs each. The Brown Turkey is dropping its leaves for some reason but the figs are ripening. I'll try and post some pictures over the next couple of days. Don't hesitate to buy them if they look like decent plants!

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Hey all,
  This is an attempt to jog some memories from a few months ago...
  It seems as if people encountered the following varieties at Whole Foods markets on the east coast:
    Hardy Chicago, LSU Purple, Celeste, Brown Turkey, Black Mission and Black Spanish.
  I personally "speculated" on a couple of nice-sized fruit-bearing trees that were labeled LSU Purple but didn't have the right leaf shapes to be LSU Purple.  One of them turned out to be a nice green fig.  None of the varieties listed above are green.
  Did anyone see any figs labeled as a variety other than what is listed above?
  If it helps, the various trees I got were labeled as having been grown by CBF.  I have a vague memory of having researched and found what grower/nursery CBF might be, but I cannot find it now.  I'm just hoping to get a hint of an ID before I try to identify this Unk Green based on fig and leaf shape.
Cheers,
Jim

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