For Aussie fig growers, where do you source your rare fig trees? LSU Gold in particular

Daleys have it but its out of stock at the moment. I just managed to get an excel from Diggers as they were the only nursery selling it (they sent me a white adriatic in poor condition before but its bouncing back). Hopefully this one will not be too bad.

Thanks in advance

ThaiFig

I might check with customs to see if they can help me out with importing figs

Hi,
No you cant import cuttings or trees at all without the correct certificates, and i think the nurseries from where the plants come from have to be inspected and approved. Them when they do arrive in australia, customs blasts tgem with formeldahyde to kill any nasties. Unfortunately, this usually kills the plant too.
I do know of someone who imported figs througb the corrected channels who had this happen. Cost him tens of thousands of dollars. And he lost most of the stock in the process.
I have heard of others who smuggled cuttings ... they usually end up caught, the cuttings destroyed as well as the rest of their fig collection. Fines are hideously high, and then theres jail time.
Theres many many fig varieties in australia.
I am working on documenting them.
We dont really need to be bringing more in when we probably have 400 or 500 different ones already. Many of them utterly delicious.

I'm more interested in importation of some of those Aussie figs. Like Blue Provence and especially St. Dominique Violette... especially St. Dominique.

Most of our figs here have been smuggled in and continue to be smuggled in. The war on fig cuttings is being lost. All of our children will continue to grow up eating figs. There is a huge epidemic that cotinues to grow. Lol

That's absolutely true, it'd a shame those two are originally French but haven't been sold in over 75 years anywhere except Australia.

Really. I did not know that. It will make it here one day.

There are different nurseries and collections selling several versions of what they claim is blue provence. So i have most of them here and am growing them out to see which is the true version, and maybe work out the id of the others, although they could be seedlings of blue provence.
The st dom fig was at the Burnley research garden and a teacher from the college there, took cuttings from it, or it was on his family orchard. Been told both versions. Anyway, it was saved before the collection was buldozed.
I have the complete list of the figs from the burnley research station and am gradually finding them. Others i have, i suspect are lost burnley figs but wont know for sure till they mature.

Yeah diggers are not good. the excell fig i bought died in a week after i bought it. It was 3 times smaller that the stock you get from bunnings it was about 13cm tall. They re-funded me.

I ended up getting

1. LSU Gold from daleys
2. Dwarf Brown Fig from daleys
3. Pink Jerusalem from Ebay
4. White Genoa (Advanced ~1m tall in a 10 inch pot) from flemings nursery. 

Im still looking for an excel and a strawberry verte fig to complete my collection.....for now...

are the black and green picone figs any good?

figcolt,
if you pm me your address i can send you cuttings of
excel
s/verte
st.dom.
clancy

Well when St. Dom hits stateside I want to be in line ;)