Panache has yellow/orange, vertical striped wood. But it can only be seen on newer growth, after 2 years it fades to Grey. Pics of Panache striped wood, Panache leaf pattern and panache fruit color before ripe. Leaves appear to be yellow variegated if the stripe is lined up with where the leaf comes out.

I didn't know Panache also had variegated leaves, thats awesome

That's a mutation

Here are a bunch of Panache leaves from 10 different trees.

A solid yellow leaf like that is rare. Most leaves have light green/yellow pattern down the middle.

Speaking of Panache'. Has any of you experienced what I have? My Panache' from Dave Wilson Nursery also the Panache' from UCDavis haven't shown stripes on the branches yet. Also the fruit is just plain light yellowish green. Both plants are less than 3 years old. Do stripes appear after more maturity or is there anything wrong with the plants not showing stripes?

Panache was a mutation and sometimes it reverts to original non-striped form.

If the wood is striped, it is Panache, but each bud had the possibility of reverting to the all-green form. There fruit really is the same, just doesn't have the sexy stripes. DNA testing at USDA shows that there is one gene difference between the two.

That's kind of sad to hear. I thought all panache would have those beautiful hot air balloon figs. Given that my tree currently has no stripes, I really hope I get lucky.

I bought quite a few Panache from Dave Wilson two years in a row (to use for grafting rootstock) and never saw a plant without stripes.

I've seen some non-variegated branches from one of my Panache trees. When I prune for cuttings I first remove those branches to get rid of them.  I would think it would be pretty rare for Dave Wilson to let very many without stripes slip through to the market.

Harvey that is good to hear. Given that I don't even have figlets on the tree it's hard to say. When should I expect to see my first figlets approximately?

I have 2 and both put out a bunch of figs its first season, but none ripened.  They have variegated branches and stripped fruit. 

I might have fruits forming? I have little bumps right above where the leaf attaches to the stem. I have no idea what these are since they are so tiny. 

Any word on when the $7 trees will be delivered? Can we trust James?...Oh, my bad, wrong thread! Just messin' around! lol

@mfehmi: I would think so, since variegated wood is what leads to the striped figs. But I only have 202 Panache trees and have not had a branch become non-variegated yet. I'm sure the larger orchards, with thousand of trees, have to cull the reverted branches.

I just counted how many Panache trees I have yesterday. Panache is one of the varieties I selected for commercial fig production.

I grafted my Panache on various varieties and the green-yellow strips remain. The fruit production is too low. I thought it was a San Pedro type with Brebas, but it seems that some efforts must be made to glue the tiny fruitlets to the branch. The fruitlets drop in my place from all Panache grafted branches without the help of the Fig fly stings. My next step is to graft 2-3 different Caprifigs with Mamme fruits and the current developing  Profichi fruitlets on the Panache side branches. It might be adapted to certain climate and soil conditions and we all around the globe mess the time with this variety.

I always thought panache was a common type with a small breba crop that it usually drops.

It is. My brebas fall off in under 30 days usually.

I bought 10 panache trees from Dave Wilson 3 years ago. Of the 7 trees that survived the gophers, 4 turned out not to have variegated foliage or fruit. I've been rooting cuttings from the 3 that did turn out to be variegated. I made the same assumption, that the variegated mutation is easily lost, but I am also surprised that DW doesn't have better quality control.

Gophers appear to love figs more than any other kind of fruit trees I've planted. Does anyone have a good strategy for protecting young trees from gophers?

Hello there, is there anyone that would like to sell me panache cuttings or to exchange it for my Zamorcica cuttings (Europe, Croatia)? Please contact me if you are interested. Thank you.