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Thanks for the pictures, Ruben.  I don't know if those are like what my GPs had, but the leaves look close.  I have some photos where the fig trees are showing in the background, but the leaves aren't real clear and there were not figs that I can see.  Too bad.  I'm going to scan them in and see if I can see them better, but the photos are copies of copies.

The color of the pulp looks right and maybe the shape, as well.

Thanks, Ruben.

Dan,  Maybe I'm really looking for Black Marseilles, depending upon how far back that variety has been around.  I'll have to google it to see about it.

Do you have a Black Marseilles?  If so, how does it do in our climate?  Is that the fig that people call the CA BT?

All I can remember is that the color of the outside of the figs were a redish brown and the skin was more tough than this little pair of trees are showing.  The figs had a pronounced fig flavor.  My gramma peeled them, but we kids always just broke them open and scooped out the pulp with our teeth.  Yum.

I think I'm chasing rainbows, here, but I so appreciate y'all helping me chase them.  :)

Hi Jason,  Those are some good photos.  Thanks for taking the time to post the links.  I don't remember the figs being real Jammy even when very ripe, but the figs in the last link look close on the outside.  I remember that sharp, fig smell when I would go into the fig tree looking for figs and I recall many small seeds.  In the pics of the BT leaves--They all look so much like Celeste leaves.

DWF,  I got the regular BT, not the larger one.  The woman I spoke with said the other one was larger and the eye was more open than the regular BT.

Hi Rufus,  Go ahead and add in your topic and questions--I'm interested in what you're saying because you're talking TX E.  I've wondered about it and wondered if it was really a TX E type and what it's like.

LOL, Jason!

My GPs' trees didn't smell like cinnamon-coconut milk, either.  I'm mostly talking about how the ripe figs smelled when on the trees, still.  It was very strong figgy smell, but not cat urine.  The trees did smell a tad like that at times.  That's not a smell you forget easily.

I can't recall that I've ever smelled a cinnamon-coconut milk smell with fig trees.  Can you name a particular variety, or varieties that do have that smell?  I wonder if those would be the berry-tasting figs, or the very dark figs.

Mine has pink eye, sometimes more burgandy-pink.  It still tastes like crap.  ;)

First, let me clarify what I think "rich" and "figgy" are, since I think a lot of folks take for granted what either of these terms mean to different individuals.  Everyone has their own taste, so if I describe mine, maybe it will help to clear up the comments to follow. 

Hi Jason,  Listen--Don't be shy--Tell us what you REALLY think of Brown Turkey figs, now.....  ;)

I think I'm the only one with they hype about BT figs and it's only about my GPs' two trees from way back when.....  They did taste good because that flavor has stayed with me all these long years.  I would taste the figs with my whole mouth and that's how I still taste figs.  The had good sweetness without being cloyingly sweet and they had a definite fig taste.  The figs that were just on the edge of too ripe sent me into a place that I could call figgy heaven.  I was just a kid, so I'm sure my taste buds were very keen at that time, but I can still taste that figgy flavor when it's there.  It's a whole mouth thing.  Left me never being able to eat enough of them to not want more.

I hate Fig Newtons and always have.  My mom thought I'd love them because of how I loved the figs in VA, but I've always loved fresh figs better than preserved.  As good as the preserved figs can be down here, they don't hold a candle to fresh, to me.  When they're preserved, they lose that figgy flavor, at least what it is to me.

As for that Celeste in the first picture--That's how my BTs look.  They are a little more blunt on the eye end than the Cs, but even the leaves look similar on both trees, to the Cs.  They aren't as good, though.

I got one as a TX E and the other as a BT and they came from two different sources, so they must be a type of BT, just one of the not-so-great BTs, which from you, sounds like all of them!  LOL!  I'm not impressed with these two little trees either.

Hello Dave,  Ahhh--You know just how I feel.  I wonder what kind of figs you had at that house and I hope you find them again some day.

Sometimes, I can bite into a Celeste that is not quite ripe and taste that same fig flavor from so long ago and it zaps me right back to that time.  Funny how smells and flavors can do that.

Hi Dan,   Both the shape of the EBT and the St. Gabriel Black look like GP's figs.  They had a turbinate shape like that and not a real neck.  The insides were an amber red color and they weren't overly juicy.  They were sticky and had a good sweetness, but needed to be ripe to be really good.  When over ripe, they would be slightly fermented in flavor and "prune-y" looking.  When the figs were just on the verge of getting over ripe, they were really good and sweeter and even more figgy.  I guess one would call it, "dead ripe."