This fig tree, about 200yds from my front door (1 block away), is finally coming to fruition.  I am dying to know what it is.  My guess is it's one of the "honey" figs (Peter's Honey or Italian Honey), but I am curious to hear some other guesses and/or a confirmation of my guess.  The owners are also very curious to know - it's a young tree (less than 5-10 years).

I thought the fig would be soured because of all the scarring, but it was amazingly sweet with almost a syrup honey taste, and the skin was very supple but with the bounceback and juiciness, it felt like a small water baloon.

Eye is open, approx 4mm-6mm
Fruit is almost entirely round with a short, stubby neck
Fruit diameter is approximately the size of a US silver dollar
Skin is yellow with tan flesh interior
Leaves have three dominant lobes
Smaller leaves have "stumpy thumbs" to make 5 lobes
Larger leaves seem to have less "stumpy thumbs" to make more 3-lobe
I took pictures of both the normal 5-lobe leaf and a cluster of 3-lobe leaves
Not a heavy fruiter

Of course the pictures are bad because I took them on my BlackBerry again instead of a real camera, but hopefully you get the idea.  Here they are:

Maybe St. Anthony?

Hi Jason.  Hope you are well my friend.

While I most certainly defer to my far more experienced colleagues, I think you can rule out Italian Honey/Lattarula/Marseilles fig.  We have a mature one of these, and the fig you have is very different.  Ours are much bigger, and have a more amber interior, more greenish skin, and a more closed eye.

A great find though, and I can't wait to see what others think it might be.

Do you think it's worth propogating in the area, or just average?

Hope you're having a good season there in Atlanta.

Best wishes.

John
North Georgia Piedmont
Zone 7b

I would say Kadota
Jeff

That looks like Marseilles to me.  Is it extra crunchy?

I might have forgotten to mention that.  There was a good deal of crunchiness to it, but I wouldn't say it was characteristically "overly" crunchy.  The seeds seemed strange on it too, like they were more "hollow" inside or something.  I remember that about them.

Looks a lot like Lemon.

If I go by the F4F gallery, I think St Anthony would be a no, Kadota is a possible, Marseilles is a possible.  The one unique characteristic of this fig I'm not seeing elsewhere is the area around the eye.  It's almost like it has a 3mm-thick ring (like a fur cuff?) around the eye, whereas many other figs eyes look almost like the top of a blueberry (like torn paper, you know?).

Look at the first picture above, you'll see a blurry idea of what I mean.  Maybe in the 3rd pic also.  ALL of the figs on the tree are like this.

Oh, and John, thanks for the well-wishes.  I don't know if this is worth propagating or not.  It doesn't seem to fruit a ton of figs for the tree size just yet, and the fruit seems to bruise/scar a lot, so if you like your figs looking nice and blemish free, this wouldn't be something you'd want to grow.  The best tasting fruit looks really beat up, almost insipid/rotten.

Ever since I ate the whole one pictured, which produce NO sap (er, latex) when pulled, I've had this tightness in my throat that happens when I accidentally eat a drop or two of sap.  I was very careful to totally wash before eating, in case they contacted the leaf too much.

I will be keeping my eyes on it.  It's amazing not to find a Celeste - this is one block due north of the "Unknown Hobart" I've posted about and been handing out cuttings of (big red pulp, yellow-green skin).  The fruit size on that one is about the same as this one, but that one is blood red inside, this one is honey-colored inside.  Eye is about the same size on both.  Leaves are smaller on this one.

That looks exactly like what my grandpa' calls his "White Honey" fig. I don't know the real name, but I know I have eaten that fig, too. And I agree: its really, really good. The skin and eye are very distinctive, I think.

Tyler

"Italian Golden Honey" almost looks like it could be a match too:  http://figs4fun.com/Thumbnail_Italian_Golden_Honey.html

Maybe Trojano?  http://figs4fun.com/Thumbnail_Trojano.html