B. W. Hunt for Benjamin Weeks Hunt from Eatonton, Georgia. He bred a few plants that have his name including this fig in the early 1900's. I have one. It is fairly vigorous, but not my favorite fig. Like a large Celeste with an elongated neck. It is apparently a Green Ischia Cross, though he did try pollinating Celeste and Brown Turkey and supposedly got other crosses from them.
"One of the most enthusiastic breeders of figs in the southern United States was B. W. Hunt (1911, 1912) of Eatonton, Georgia. For female parents he
used Brown Turkey, Green Ischia, and Celeste, and for pollen he first resorted to local seedling caprifigs. Later he obtained blastophagas which
effected pollination of the edible figs available. One of his main objectives was to produce a fig with a peduncle long enough to hang downwards and
thus to shed rain away from the eye. His seedling fig, the Hunt, a cross of Green Ischia with pollen from California, has the desired character, is larger
than Celeste, but is too tender to ship well as a fresh fruit.
Both Hunt in Georgia and Tanikawa in Japan split open the apex of the fig and introduced pollen on the point of a knife blade."
Scott
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