These figs were about 3-5 days too early to pick. When ripe they are rich and figgy. The skin is tough.
I bought a small tree from Lowe's 3 years ago labeled Magnolia. It is now a huge 7x7 healthy beast producing these figs.

If anyone has Magnolia/Brunswick, please let me know if yours looks like this. Posting pictures would be great.

The fig interior and leaf shapes do not look like Brunswick.

Best,
Tam

Here is my thread on Brunswick.

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/brunswick-photos-6496657?pid=1279655786

Best,
Tam

Look more like Mission and/or Black Mission.

Thank you Tam. The dark purplish color certainly does not jibe with Magnolia . The leaves and fig shape are similar, though. More pics from other growers please.

Looks like my Black Mission I purchased from where?? You guessed it LOWES, about the same time as you.

Not Brunswick/Magnolia.

Probably Mission, IMO

If it was a Brunswick growing in FL the figs would be split   :)

Frank,
I agree with others...it looks like a Mission (and similar to those from my Black Mission NL). If you can give it a few more days, I wonder if the skin will crack.

2 different figs? one is honey-ish inside and the other red when ripe.

Here is my Brunswick

Hi FMD,
Do you have a pic of the tree. The bark on brunswick is more blackish than brownish/yellowish . The tree has a typical sprawling habit . And it is a small cultivar.
@Brianm: judging on that fig: not brunswick ... The color is wrong. Do you have a pic of the tree ... ?

Its caprified very red interior this year

Interesting link between the two.
Not caprified and caprified Brunswick.

http://gustavson.snimka.bg/nature/2013.771264.31590318

Very different in taste.

http://gustavson.snimka.bg/nature/smokinja.690785.31275788

OMG! Lowe's making a labeling error? How is that possible? LOL.

Now it all makes sense...I have a have a healthy, vigorous Black Mission. Welcome to the orchard!

Thanks, Wayne and others for pointing me in the right direction.

The "magnolia" i bought from lowes had a pic just like the fig you show on the label, and it was grafted onto my frankenfig before the folks here informed me that it is in fact a yellow/green fig, not purple, and synonymous with Brunswick, which I already had.  Not only that but an open-eyed fig, horrible for the humid gulf south.

I left it on my tree anyway, and the figs this year are in fact purple, just like what you show.  So either the source of lowes' magnolia are not acutaly magnolia, or magnolia is not actually brunswick. 

Put "magnolia fig" into google images, and most of the pics match your/my fig, not brunswick.

BTW, my free standing brunswick is ripening during an unseasonably dry spell here and the figs are just amazing, even though there is a narrow window between not ripe, and spoiled.

Just to add, my leaves match Brian's, more slender fingers than yours, on both the magnolia and brunswick.

     

Leaves, tree and figs for better ID. For sure it is not a Magnolia.  

here is another thread on this topic

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/magnolia-fig-tree-from-lowes-5028421?pid=1266657412#post1266657412

Definitely not a Brunswick/Magnolia.  I have several growing here on the SC/GA border.  Leaves are wrong (need longer thinner fingers on your leaves) and the fruit is wrong. We get a lot of heat and sun and at best the figs are pear shaped beigy colored fruit with a pinkish blush that never quite makes it to purple.  The inside is a blush pink color. Fruit is not cloyingly sweet and I think its a member of the honey family taste wise.  Would send pictures but I cut all mine to the ground this year and the leaves are sort of variable this year. Despite that, my bushes have bounced back to being over 6' in height despite not having the number of stems thinned and are now setting scads of fruit which only the earliest might have time to ripen (shows the importance of a good root system). Most of the past 7 years in SC have been dry enough for it to ripen without souring but that was not true last year.  Although its an open eye variety which is not ideal for our climate, I have to say you can do some interesting things with the green figs and they have earned their spot in my orchard (they make a great pemmican among other things). Not sure what you have but it does not resemble to  Black Missions I have seen around here and which I have grown.  Skin on these fruits has been quite tender and the fruit more elongated. I know there is quite a variety in the Black Mission family, so perhaps? The color is right although mine have more of a pinkish color where the fruit meets the stem. I bought my Brunswick/Magnolias as BT's at a local nursery. Lots of surprises when you grow figs. :)  If they are tasty and don' t sour, celebrate the mysteries in life.