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will the real MARSEILLES black (VS) plese stand up?

I received cuttings, ( including marseilles black (VS))  from a reliable forum member a few years ago.
they came individually labelled and I got 3  marseilles black (VS) out of it.
one I have traded away.
the story is the other two.
for the first 2 years they exhibited the identical leaf pattern.
3rd year one showed some leaves with variation, and both put out similar looking figs.
This year one has standard leaf pattern, every leaf almost  identical in overall shape, and figs look like the ones in variety list. The other not so much. It has wild variation in leaf pattern, still some leaves that look like the other one but not many, and the figs are not looking the same at all.
First three pics are of one plant, the next four are of the one with leaf variation.  Is such leaf variation normal in the variety. and a fig pic of what both produced last year as breba.

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Looks like 2 different very nice figs! 
2nd fig doesn't look MBVS but could be interesting.  How did they taste?

Hi Pino,
They are both keepers for taste.
Does the first fig look like marseilles black (VS)?

The first one could be MBVS but the second looks a little like LdA. The breba and ruffled leaf have some similarities. Lucky you if that is what they are since both are very hardy. Good luck to you!

The second type's leaf and fig look somewhat like LDA

Hi bigbadbill and Ed, both trees produced breba that looked like that last year.

having LdA would be nice. i have never received cuttings or plants labelled LdA, (longue d'eau ?)

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