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Wrongly identified fig

Last year I found a fig in the Tudor Garden of Tretower in Wales.  In the write up about the garden the fig is described as a Brown Turkey, but it looked nothing like one.  I cut into a fruit, and later took cuttings which are now beginning to sprout early leaves, but again, nothing like Brown Turkey.
The fruits are medium sized and the leaves are a darker green than many other varieties; large, bold and shiny.  All four cuttings have taken, producing those brilliant dark green leaves.
Photos show: cut fig, leaf in August, the tree, a cutting with its first typical leaves on 20 April 2016.
Can anyone have a shot as to its identity, please?    David  "Beanie"tretower_halffig.jpg  tretower_leaf_sml.jpg  tretower_tree_sml.jpg  Tretower15apr16_sml.jpg


Looks like a caprifig. Can you eat the fig. And a better picture of the inside. Looks fuzzy. This will help in identifying the tree.

I don't know about Capri Mr Boni, do they have wasps in Wales?
Besides, I think Capri figs that size have hallow centers. But then again, with figs, I'm hardly ever right, LOL

Thanks for the comments and ideas.  In answer, That is the best and only picture I have of the inside of the fig.  Yes, a ate it, and it was reasonably sweet.
I don't think we have the right sort of wasps in Wales, but we certainly have lots of the common wasp so prevelant in the UK!
Beanie

Fig looks really un-ripe, but those leaves look pretty.

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