Looking for few cuttings of Abebereira fig. If anyone has this variant and can share or sell its cuttings, please send me an email.

Thank you,
Navid.

Navid,i'll send you 3 cuttings.   Marius

I would like to thank everyone who send me an email, offering the cuttings of this variant.

Marius, as always, you are the most generous member of this forum. Thank you.


Navid.

Marius,Navid
What about this variant has spiked your interests ? Or rather what do you like about it? What does it taste like?
Just curious. Wondering if I will soon be searching for this variant soon! Lol. Every time I see a post or hear about a new variety I get all excited and then it's a quest to get it. Thank you guys for fueling my obsession. I am beside myself with all the wonderful variants out there.
Thanks a head for any info you have. happy fig growing

another Portuguese fig, right?

Hello!
Is this the fig you are talking about ? (Bêbera branca)
Not long ago I invited my cousin Aurora for one of their preferred dishes.-fresh anchovies 'au champagne' and she accepted on one condition:
-to bring the wine and the dessert-
I accepted and she brought this nice plate figs
cheers

francisco,

your figs are lovely as ever.

Wow!  That looks really delicious! 

Suzi

Bebera Branca? but it is purple on the outside!

See this link for pictures of Bebera Branca :  http://www.susanvanderveen.com/FIGS/Branca/Branca.html

And this one for Abebererira:  http://www.susanvanderveen.com/FIGS/Abebereria/Abebereria.html

I haven't checked lately but Jon may have some pics on is varieties pages as well. He may also have cuttings from both of these for sale when he makes his list available for this season.

Looks like the two links I posted above didn't create hyperlinks. But if you highlight the link and right click on it you will get the option to go directly to the sight/images.

EDIT: Fixed the links above.

Hi,

Thank you Pete for the compliment. I will convey your nice comments to Aurora and she will be delighted. These figs are hers..But they are really delicious specially coming late in the season, which was not at all wet thus enabling ideal ripening weather for these late varieties.

Thank you Suzi, both dessert and lunch are in fact delicious.

Grasa, the skin (and pulp) color on this variety , as well as in many others may be affected by climate as well as soil composition. These figs as practically all the others in this region come mainly from calcareous soils which are ideal for figs. Have seen this same variety with a purple skin all over, others purple with longitudinal shades of green and yellowish, some darker other lighter.
In the peak of their season there are quite big figs - over the 100+ grams

Bill, the most conspicuous aspect on these 'bêbera branca' is its rather long foot (stalk). Good practise on pick up from the tree, must leave that foot with the fruit.
I have seen the links but they seem to be probably the same variety but from different climates...( less hot ,. more humid ?)

Grasa, Yes. It's a Portuguese fig.

Lampo, I am not familiar with Bêbera branca, so I can not answer your question. Sorry. Hopefully others with more knowledge about this variant will chime in.


Navid.

oh boy.....
i guess thats another Portuguese variety this Portuguese guy needs to have! Where do i sign up?

Hello,

Navid, I shall dig around to try and find pics of this variety grown in the North where it is cooler and far more humid. What I may add is that they are somehow difficult to root up. Have tried 3 years ago with two cuttings at the right season 'in perlite' and had no sucssess.

Stevin, Thank you, in fact I have just shown the figs. The real owner/grower is my cousin Aurora and to get that plate of 'bêberas' I had to offer her that lunch of delicious 'fresh anchovies au champagne'. I will tell her that you admire her figs!

Abebereira fig.  OK, I'll bite--

What country is this fig from?  How in the universe do you pronounce the name of this fig?

Abe-be-REAR-a?  It sounded Italian to me, but Spanish/Portuguese would sound similar, wouldn't it?

I would just love to know about this fig, since a friend has it.

Thanks,

noss

A-be-be-ray-ra. Closest way to show u the pronunciation, it cones natural to me, so I never really had to think of how its pronounced,

What I would like is figo de Sao Joao, but not sure if they would produce early enough in zone 7a

Hi LSilva,

Thanks for your fast reply, with the pronunciation of the fig's name.

I hope you can find the figo de Sao Joao and it can produce early enough for you.

noss

Abebereira produces a nice breba crop here in my climate, as well as a fantastic main crop. It comes from a woman in San Diego, who brought it from Madeira 50+ years ago.
I also have Sao Joao Preto, which will fruit for the 1st time this year.

Abebereira breba
 

 

It's a pain in the butt to root.  Out of 4 cuttings I didn't get a single one to survive.  They came from trusted sellers on here too, so I have no doubt it was not the quality of the cuttings.  

Beautiful fig, Gary! Thanks for sharing the pics... I do agree with the challenging to root comment.... I had a small number of cuttings and they proved reluctant to root or at least yield to my (lack of) rooting expertise. I did manage to get several rooted but then the rooted cuttings either lacked vigor or I killed them with kindness and most folded their tents...

Yep, zero for six on my efforts to root this past spring. I thought it was just me. I will try again next year for sure.

To avoid disappointments like those (not a single rooted cutting from rare and precious varieties), i always graft at least one cutting.
If i only get one cutting (it happened with a few varieties, this year), i will graft the last bud and try to root the remaining of the cutting.

I got two cuttings of Abebereira this winter and was successful in rooting one cutting but it took a long while. The other cutting was grafted but did not take. The rooted cutting now is growing vigorous in a five gallon with nice large leaves.

Nice photos, Gary. Abebereira produced its first breba for me this year and will produce its first main crop in a few weeks. I haven't bothered to take photos of my brebas this year, but am compiling a descriptive list of all varieties that are producing them this year in an effort to figure out which are worth keeping on their respective trees in future years.

Up to this year, brebas have been uniformly bad from my potted collection, the best rating 5/10 while most plummeted to between 1-3/10. This year has been different, though I've noticed an interesting trend among my large, dark figs: almost all of their brebas taste (and look) similar to a Mission breba - this is not a bad thing, mind you, but a little disappointing when you're searching for some diversity of flavor. Varieties in that group that have produced brebas thus far this year are:

Mission - produced perhaps the best single fig in this group

De La Reina - not as sweet, but from a younger tree

Kathleen's Black - might as well be Mission. The figs look and taste exactly the same. This extends to the few main crop figs this stingy variety has given me in five years. Thus far, KB has not come close to matching the hype surrounding it when it was considered a "hot" variety a few years ago. Mission is a fine fig, though like KB not all that productive in pot culture for me, but it is a couple of notches below the best figs in my collection.

Abebereira - similar to De la Reina in quality from a one year older tree. I have a couple more to taste if the critters don't beat me to them.

Albacor Comuna - see De la Reina

Valle Negra - see De la Reina

It's possible, perhaps probable, that the similarities among all but Mission and KB, which produced the two best and most similar figs - pretty much the same in my book, call them 7/10 on the gustatory quality scale - is related to the overall bland sweetness of the other figs, none of which rated better than a 5/10 on flavor. Perhaps added sugar would have allowed for some differences in flavor. Texturally and visually (likely repeating myself here) they were all quite similar. None had any acid, unlike RdB, discussed below.

I'll post a complete list of my breba impressions when they're done producing in two or three weeks. The best thus far has been RdB. Its brebas are pretty much just like its main crop in size and flavor. Texturally they're just a bit mushy compared to the main crop, but it's in no way off putting.

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Originally Posted by figgary
Abebereira produces a nice breba crop here in my climate, as well as a fantastic main crop. It comes from a woman in San Diego, who brought it from Madeira 50+ years ago.
I also have Sao Joao Preto, which will fruit for the 1st time this year.

Abebereira breba