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SimonS

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Hi All 

I need help identifying a particular fig variety 

What is unique about this fig is the very squatty nature of the fruit about 2:1 ratio of width to height. This tree was planted last year  and the largest fruit I got off it is around 3" wide and 1.5" high (season just starting). Light green skin sometimes bordering on yellow and light pinkish flesh ( I suspect it will be amber if allowed to mature). I have only picked one fruit last week, a few days before maturity, because I was too anxious to know the taste and it was very good flavor for a 1 year old tree. Now I picked two more and again too early but this time because they are starting to split (i think it's time to stop watering the tree)  

I estimate the season / ripening will be September to October in Northern California Zone 9a/b  

The leaves start out as single lobe then as they grow become either 3 lobes or sometimes 5 lobes

One thing I did notice on this variety is that the branches are easy to break. you have to be very gentle to avoid breaking limbs and it seems much less tolerant to abuse compared to other fig varieties I have 

I received this from a Palestinian immigrant's family who unfortunately passed away a few years back and his family does not know the actual varietal name. He was from the Jerusalem / Ramallah region so most likely he brought it with him on one of the visits. He was an avid gardner growing unique plants and unique farm animals on a 5 acre parcel, so I suspect this is also a boutique fig variety   

That's pretty much all the clues I have and hopefully someone recognizes this. Any help identifying this variety would be greatly appreciated

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Easy. LSU GOLD
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SimonS

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Thank you Richie,

On a scale of 1-10 how would you rate the flavor of a mature LSU Gold? 

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Probably not LSU Gold if it came from Jerusalem. There are a couple of people here from Isreal, maybe one of them will see this.

Mike in Hanover, VA
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Hi MGorski,
A neighbor gardener has a figtree, and we swapped cuttings. He has origins in north Africa (Morocco, Algeria ,Tunisia I didn't ask, and he didn't say).
But I asked were the figtree originated ... thinking of a small village somewhere, and he almost died laughing ... Long story short, he got the tree at a nearby shop ... LOL ...
He told me that everyone though the tree to be from far and away ... and that had him laughing a lot :)
I told him, that I had never seen a figtree with the same figs. He said that a friend (now gone) bought it in a shop in Germany, gave it to him, and the label was lost and from memory was "figtree" ... Not helpful ...
Well, as long as it produces like in his garden ... I don't really care ... except for intellectual knowledge ...
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Good point jdsfrance, I imagine many people coming from a fig region might just buy a tree from a nursery when the get to their new country. The fig is definatly shaped like a LSU Gold, but I'm hoping Simon has something more unusual. He can easily add LSU Gold to his collection. It is nice to know what variety you have, so maybe a picture of a ripe fig will help identify it better.

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