I posted a photo of this plant in an old post.  The photo is from last year (August I think) when it was a much smaller plant.  Joe's Jersey is the plant all the way to the right.  So I think the leaves that are coming out now are the true shape.

I think its just a scale from the eye that is a different color than the rest.  Here's a different angle.

So I tasted a ripe fig from this tree today.  I hadn't tasted a fig from this variety in about twenty years.  I didn't remember how it tasted and wasn't sure what to expect.

Here are pics:

The flavor was not what I expected.  It was at a medium level of sweetness.  Also at a medium level of classical "fig" flavor.  But it had a strong acidic flavor that I have not tasted in other figs in my current collection.  It was different but nice.  You can't tell too much from just one fig.  I have another one that will ripen in a day or two.  Then I have some more that will ripen in a few weeks.  I'll taste those to compare.

Again, here is a photo of the leaves:

The leaf on the left is an old leaf from early in the season.  This is the typical leaf type when the weather is not to hot.  The leaf on the right is the typical shape that comes out once the weather gets very hot.  The leaves are fairly small on this variety.

Is this a known variety or is this something new?

I'm going to make cuttings of this plant available for others to grow.  I'll see if that's a possibility when I visit the mother plant, if not then when my plant needs pruning I will distribute from what I have.  It's located in the Athenia section of Clifton.  The plant was large and established when my family lived at the property in the 1980's.  But the current owners have neglected the plant and keep cutting it back to the ground.  My mom was lucky to find enough of it left last year to take a few cuttings.  I'll see what's left of it this year when I'm in NJ.   

Here's another fig on my tree that will be ripe in a day or two.  I'll post pics of this one when it's ripe.

I've been here one year so far.  From what I've seen it looks like the growing season is late March through early December.  In the winter it is in the 60's during the day and at night it goes down to around 40.  We did get a few freezes last winter.

I'm hoping to keep eating figs into November.  I still have figs that will ripen up this year on this tree, VDB, Desert King, and Black Madeira.  The long growing season is definitely one of the perks of living in Arizona.

It's been my favorite fig so far this year.  Black Madeira has figs on it that are taking FOREVER to ripen, so we'll see.  What I like about this fig is that it is productive, has good flavor, and the fruit is soft and moist.  In Massachusetts when I grew fig trees the fruit from different varieties all ripened up moist and juicy on the inside, but getting sweet figs was more of a challenge because by the time they ripened it was starting to cool down outside.  Here in AZ all of my figs ripen up sweet, but many of them are dry.  VDB has been the worst in this regard, although recently as the weather has started to cool the VDB figs are getting juicy again.  I like this Joe's Jersey fig because it has given me soft and juicy figs when other trees were ripening up dry and tough.

I'm also holding out hope that fruit will improve as trees mature.  I have a Black Mission NL and I'm really looking forward to eating fruit from it next year based on your desription of how it does for you.  I've found it to be a slow grower and the leaves are mottled from FMV, but it is looking healthier every month and I'm crossing my fingers for next year.  This year I ate fruit from 6 varieties.  Joe's Jersey was the most consistent with tasty, soft, juicy fruit.  VDB produced EXCELLENT figs earlier in the year before it got too hot.  It's starting to produce very good figs again but the damn birds keep beating me to them.  Desert King (?) from Burnt Ridge has produced a lot of fair quality main crop figs.  I am hoping for excellent brebas next spring.  LSU Purple grew very well and was very productive, but the fruit had almost no flavor.  People say it will improve dramatically with age.  LSU Gold was a disappointment because it produced more fruit than it could ripen.  Foolishly I didn't thin the fruit in time and the tree became weak.  The few figs I left on it were poor.  I think this happened because the fruit are so large and draw a lot of energy out of the tree.  Next year I will thin the fruit.  Celeste has been a big disappointment for me.  It has dropped most of its fruit and the ones that ripened were small and dried out.  Celeste was one of my best figs in Massachusetts but I may not keep it here in AZ.  I have others that will give me fruit next year.  I'm still hoping to taste Black Madeira this year if those figs decide to ripen.  They are green and hard and seem like they they want to stay that way instead of ripening.