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Grateful for help with fig id.

This fig was sold to me as Verte. I was sold on it by a picture on the supplier's Facebook pages showing it ripe with red flesh. The supplier is no longer trading or contactable, so no help possible there. The fig has an open eye, thick skin and can split. It has a figgy taste rather than berry or melon. The flesh was more solid than a honey type like white marseilles but still juicy. All in all not outstanding but an ok fig. But I still can't get rid of that nagging question, what have I got?
As far as I have seen so far this fig doesn't have brebas.
Hope the description and photos are enough for someone to come up with an identification.
Thanks.

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Forgot to mention that this is normally a pretty late fig.
This year it's fruiting three or four weeks early, but then it's been an early season for all my figs.

My best guess would be white Adriatic from the leaves,I have one so maybe when it fruits can compare.Was this fig fully ripe?,maybe it's just our odd summer

Come to think of it white Genoa might be a possible too.I don't grow that one but just trying to put that fig with those leaves in my head I seem to remember White Genoa with similar leaves and colouring,maybe if someone else grows these they might chime in,by White Adriatic I mean the European version,might be different from the UCD version and defiantly different to Adriatic JH

White Adriatic typically has thumbs but not always. It is a pretty early variety here in Fresno. White Genoa has a similar leaf but without thumbs and serrated edges. The bottom is white genoa

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Thanks for the replies so far. I am wondering if this fig could be Sucre Vert.
Anyone that's got it like to comment?

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