Testing on posting pictures.

Look great! Deep blue/black color on the figs... is that true to life or a photographic anomaly?

Taken from my IPhone. Excellent tasting fig for my zone. Very dark colour.

Very nice looking fig

Very pretty fruit

Paully,

I would say that fig passes the test at least as a looker. Unique color on that one   I know you like Breba or is that main crop?  If it's a good main crop I will start looking

Looking good, it's my  1st year growing Noir De Bellone

It doesn't turned into that beautiful blue in my area.the color seem to be more into red- dark purple.

This is an excellent fig I only had one or two before my tree died about 5 years ago mine was purchased from baud. Glad it does well for you Paul looks beautiful.

Looks great Paul. Mine died down to ground level but luckily regrew from the roots so hopefully next year I can taste that one again.
Tyler

Nelson, I got an air layered one for you. Last few years it had
tasted excellent for my zone like always amongst the top, even
better than I258. Hence Tyler, baby your tree.

Fruit colour eventually turned very dark to the point of dull dark. I
Think colour is much dependent on time of day picture taken etc.
Picture taken from my I-phone. Anyway, fruit taste, reliability &
productivity is more important for me.

Thank you Paul, I appreciate it. Bellone is an excellent fig im shocked that its not too popular in north america.

Thanks again
Nelson

Indeed a surprise not many collectors growing it. Maybe it is only meant to do well in
cooler zones. Anyway, there are so many high quality variants-available here in Canada
especially in your province. To top it, there are just as many unheard of varieties you guys
are trailing & sharing with me. Hey, good to see you contributing to this forum. Akram &
James have been quiet. Hope all is well.

Where can this fig be found? I can not find anywhere. I'm in zone 7 so need cold figs

I don't think is a very cold region variety. At least from what can be read about the variety in french sites (beware that some mistake it with Sultane):


Information on a french website - the author of the text considers it it's second best of 2015 summer:

http://acclimatons.com/mon-palmares-des-meilleures-figues-de-lete-2015/

Google translation

 


Google translation from this french website: - http://www.fruitiers-rares.info/articles75a80/article76-culture-Figuier-Ficus-carica.html
"A few years ago, I had to part from a plot of land containing a beautiful fig tree of great interest. It was an individual of the unified variety 'Bellone', aged 17 years and driven in tuft. I had initially planted five fairly high cuttings (between 0.5 and 0.8 m) arranged in a circle and slightly inclined. I voluntarily let them grow without any size. The result was a 3.5 meter tall tuft with five trunks and long lateral jets, some near the ground, giving it a wingspan of six meters. The variety 'Bellone', formerly known and practiced in the area of Nice is one of the varieties of fig that I prefer: its fruit has an exceptional character. The color, texture and taste of this fig combine both the refinement of a first-rate cultivar and the characteristic and surprising features of a wild fig tree. Who never tasted a very ripe Bellone fig will never really know what a fig is ... Contrary to what is often written in the literature, this variety produces rather large fruits (provided, of course, not to be planted in a field unfavorable to the fig tree). In addition to its extraordinary organoleptic qualities, this variety lends itself wonderfully to processing (drying, jam, compote ...)."

Variety photos
 


The french description in Baud's book.
  

It does seem a very rare and precious variety. I hope that the single cutting i received survives.
  

http://www.freetranslation.com/en/translation#!/505037985fe01ac20407b800/505037985fe01ac20407b7fb/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.figuiers.com%2Fplants-de-figuiers.html%23Dauphine


Jaime,

I almost got this fig last year, but the one crop turned me off.  Now I wish I had.

Wish Bellone was more widely grown, has good reports, but it has been hard to find.

Ray,

Some of the very best figs we have over here are one crop, so i sure don't rule them out for that.

When i received that one cutting of Bellone from a very good French friend among the many he sent me of the varieties i have asked him, i didn't give it more attention, because i was misleaded by the web information stating that it was a synonym for Sultane which i already had.  If i have found the information about it sooner i would have taken more care with the grafting and rooting.

I think the grafted bud has taken but it was grafted to a weak branch and it is not developing (probably only next spring, if i am lucky)





and the cutting is not in the best of shapes (unlike almost all my other cuttings, who are doing just fine (most have even been up potted).

 

I really hope i don't lose it, because it sure seems to be a very good fig, and the website you listed confirms it: