This Melanzana from south Italy is a very prolific variety, often produces a pair of fruits, while the breba crop is not abundant, but very good and tasty.

It's a late variety, and with all the fruits can produce until autumn.

The flavor is sweet, with a touch of acidity, the pulp is red and full of syrup.

Lots of fruits





Leaves have mostly 5 lobes


Breba (year 2015, the plant was still small)


Later i will post photos of the pulp, if birds left something.

I'm sure that in USA there are plants of this variety with other names.

Hello Claudio
This is a nice fig--- it seems to ripen a bit late and  much ..prolific
How big are its brebas ??

Francisco

Thank you Francisco,
brebas are about 80-100 grams, main crop is variable, some figs are big and other small.
The only problem with this variety is that these fruits split easily.

Yes,
this and also the other Melanzana from cantral Italy (with thin lobes and reddish fruits).

Looks very nice and productive!

Do you know how many Melanzana figs there are in S. Italy?  

I have 3 different melanzana figs now but I am still looking for the one I used to eat as a child.  It had a unique taste and it was dark purple and long like an eggplant.  LdA and lungo del portogallo are the same shape but that Melanzana was much more darker. literally same colour as eggplant.

Thanks for the comments.

There are many figs known as Melanzana, but the fig that you mention can be called the true Melanzana, a big elongated fig, with dark purple/black skin, shaped like an eggplant.
That variety is called here 'Pedringiana', and people here know well this fig, and remember to have eaten so many of them during childhood, but now it's impossible to find a tree, but wrongly now most people call with this name any big fig with dark skin.
At other times people here knew well figs and kept them in great care, protecting them from hordes of hungry children and birds; dried figs were a common food during the cold months, used also to sweeten coffee.
There were figs everywhere and of many varieties, but now this heritage is lost.

Nice photo that fig looks perfectly ripe!

Thanks for the information on the Melanzanas!