This is an unknown from Philadelphia that was distributed in the spring of 2014 as rescue cuttings from a tree that was being cut down.  See post here:  http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/unk-dark-purple-cuttings-free-for-pickup-in-northeast-philadelphia-area-6654560?highlight=abington&pid=1283419817#post1283419817

 I have not seen any one else post on this one. The leaf looks like somewhat like a Mt Etna type, but I am not experienced enough to state that with certainty. It was sweet, tasty, with 'figgy' flavor. This is my second main crop fig this year, one day after my Lattarulla. It is way ahead of my few "Mt Etna types" like Hardy Chicago, Sal's (EL), Bryant Dark and Dominick's fig (although not all of those are being grown the same, all started the fig shuffle at the same time in April and all are young plants). It is growing in a 4g SIP, with about a dozen more figs on the plant. Pics of leaf and fig below.  Looking forward to hearing about this from others growing it.

 

 
 

Thanks for sharing your results, Ed. I am always interested in early maturing varieties- this one looks very nice.
Well done!

Looks nice Ed and for me the earlier ripening the better.    Did it produce any brebas? 

I don't have this one but my fig purchased as Natalina sure looks similar (breba) fig, leaf and the taste you describe.  It ripens main crop in October and is a good breba producer.   

Great looking fig Ed! From your explanation it seems to be a good one especially for a young tree.

A couple pics of the next 2 figs of this one picked this AM.  This fig plant, like many of mine, had a few brebas on it that dropped off in May during the fig shuffle when the plant was exposed to 38 degrees and I failed to get them back in the garage.

These two again were extremely good, very sweet and with a vague fruit flavor, a little more ripe than the first one, I think, shared with my honey :)   I was intending to leave them on the tree until shriveled (have not done that yet, I am a rookie) but we had a big rainstorm starting about 4 AM so I snatched them off at daybreak.

Comparing them with the others that are classified as Mt Etna types, the green figs of this one seem larger than the rest of mine, and the Bryant Dark and Old Brooklyn Italian (both in 5g SIPs) have a few hard purple fruit on them, and the Sal's EL (in ground since late June), Chicago Hardy ( 2 in pots) and MBvs (in pot) are nowhere close to having ripe figs.  All were 'shuffled' in April and May and stored the same in the winter.  Of course all of these are young plants so hard to draw conclusions yet, but I am hopeful that this one continue to be earlier than the others in the future.

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A little more on this rescued fig...
Again this year, as in 2015, this was the earliest of my Mt Etna types. In 2015 I did not have an RdB to compare with, but the first main crop was on 8/14. In 2016 my plant had some issues when I let it dry out (I could not manage my plants well after a back injury, the SIP blew over in a storm and I did not get it back upright until many days later), and it lost a lot of leaves and fruited later.

This year the first main crop fruit was on 8/21 (1 week after RdB, 9 days after Florea). The next Mt Etna's to fruit were a Salem Dark on 8/23 and a Chicago Hardy 8/27.

I did not hear of anyone else who managed to get cuttings to root from the initial distribution of cuttings from the cut down tree in 2014 (but there could have been some who were no longer active on forums).  It seems to be a worthwhile variety, so I will try to get this one distributed a bit more over the next few years. My plant is in a 5g SIP and so there is not a lot of extra wood, but I want to get a copy in ground, where there will lots of cuttings to spread.

This year the leaves are not quite as typical of other Mt Etnas as in the original leaf photo above, not sure why. Two leaf pics to follow: