It's very hard to tell the whole story from leaves on a fairly new tree (leaves come in all forms).

Drew, I agree that they must be very close, but depending on your location, perhaps one might perform better than the other.

Jerry, you're never off topic.
As you can see in the next few photos, the whole top of my VDS is gone (I cut it off) and new tiny shoots are forming, but I belive that at present they don't have enough energy to push upward. My only inground tree that suffered the least from freeze damage is the five year old Col de Dame Gris and this year it appears to be more productive than any previous year.
Paully, I have the Noire de Bellone, it's a wonderful fig, but figs in containers behave totally different than in ground. My wood losses in containers are minimal compared to in ground trees. I must add that none of my trees is protected in winter and I have a clay soil in my yard.
From everything that I know, the Violette de Sollies fig is a Black Brogiotto or Bourjasotte Black that adapted well to that region in France and became a significant economic crop and its name is protected.
The source of the fig determines its name.








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The true origins of this variety are in North Africa from where it was brought to Iberia long..long time ago
Given their attributes,way back in time, Spanish farmers in the Province of Valencia and near the town of Burjasot planted many of these trees together with its white and the striped  ('panachée') sisters.
Then these cultivars migrated to the neighboring countries and were identified as Bourjassot's - black, white and stripped, plus a variety of names given by people on the different new locations

Not sure if the Brogiotto's are a synonym.. think they are a completely diff cultivar

https://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/bra%C3-%A7ajote-preto-vdsolli%C3-%A8s-parisi%C3-%A8nne-7029111?highlight=bra+ajote&pid=1283851953

Francisco
Portugal

if my Bordissot Negra is the same as Braçajote Preto/VdSolliès, would be very excited.

thanks for sharing the link Francisco, awesome looking fig and i am sure the pollination helps as well

As you can see from the previous photos, the original tree lost most of its wood during the winter.
I believe that one of the things that contributed to killing most of the original trunk in my zone was pinching the top off for cuttings during the growing season and it's failing to branch out as it wasn't established in ground at that time.
Unless someone has a different experience, I don't think that pinching this variety is a good thing as it has a straight up growth habit and pruning if any should be done during dormancy.

Since May I've had a new stem grow about five feet, replacing the main one. This robust growth is an indication that the roots are starting to get stablished.
I was about to Air Layer it but it grew so fast that I decided to remove the AL container and let it do its thing.
You can see the roots still hanging.

The size of the figs this second season which are not only late(today's photo), they are half of what they were while the tree was in pot or when first moved to in ground, so there's still some work to be done, before this tree really takes off again.