Fig – Ficus Carica
Desert King
Large , dark green fruit, strawberry red flesh. Excellent for fresh eating and good dried. Bears consistently reliable crop. Produces one crop on second year wood. Ripens in late July. Good variety to plant in colder wetter areas. Can produce from root suckers if frozen. More hardy than Brown Turkey. 100 chill hours. Hardy to 10 degrees F.
Negronne (Violette de Bordeau)
Small jet black fruits. Dep red pulp. Very fine flavor fresh or dried. Closed eye. Excellent mission type fig for cooler areas. Vigorous and extremely hardy. Produces two crops each year. Self Fruitful. 100 chill hours. Zones 5-10 Originated in Italy.
Peters Honey Fig
Beautiful shiny, greenish yellow fruit when ripe. Very sweet, dark amber flesh. High quality superb for fresh eating. Tree grows 15-25 feet tall and wide. Self Fruitful. 100 chill hours. Warm location with a southern exposure is required for ripening fruit in maritime Northwest. Hardy to 0 Degrees F. Zones 7-10. Originated in Sicily.
Black Mission
Medium to large, pear shaped fruit with rough, purplish black skin. Sweet, strawberry red flesh. Distinct rich flavor. Taste standard for figs. Finest quality. Favored for drying. Good for fresh eating and canning. Heavy bearing, long lived, large tree. Self Pollinating. Produces two crops per year, In June and August-November. 100 chill hours. Zones 7-11. Produces almost everywhere in California except the high deserts. California’s oldest, most popular shipping and drying fig. Owes its name to the Franciscan missionaries of Father Junipero Serra who planted it at the mission in San Diego.
Brown Turkey
(Old brown turkey, Black Spanish, texas everbearing, English brown turkey)
Medium to large elongated fruit with brownish maroon skin. Fine grained, sweet, juicy, firm, meaty flesh. Sugary, rich flavor. Excellent for jams, canning, drying, or eating flesh. Handsome, Low bushy plants grow 10 feet tall. Can be pruned. Large, tropical, glossy green leaves. Self pollinating. Selected for winter hardiness and fruit quality. 100 chill hours. Bears as far north as Zone 5 when grown in open ground. Must be covered where temperature drops below 10 Degrees F. Superb container plant further north. Ever bearing beginning in early June.
