Fig Varieties: A Monograph - uri=ucce.ucdavis

February, 1955] Condit: Fig Varieties
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prominent neck; ribs present but inconspicuous; eye slightly protruding from the
rounded apex; color light green; white flecks fairly large and scattered; interior purple.
Season medium early. (Plate 6.)
Roeding No. 4. A variety of uncertain origin and identity; probably introduced by
the Fancher Creek Nursery, Fresno, but exact records lost; see descriptions by Condit
(1920a, 1947).
Tree vigorous, upright, with slender branches much like those of Roeding No.2; bark
smooth, not scaly; leaves below medium to small, 3- to 5-lobed; sinuses moderately
deep and open; base truncate to somewhat decurrent.
Mamme crop generally good; figs medium, up to 1-1/4 inches in diameter, spherical,
without neck, or pyriform, with neck somewhat flattened; stalk short; ribs fairly
prominent; eye small, with chaffy scales; white flecks prominent, scattered; color green,
with rather prominent bloom; interior purple.
Profichi crop good; figs medium or larger, turbinate; eye protrudes from the slightly
depressed apex; neck short or sometimes wanting, occasionally more prominent and
somewhat flattened; color green, with numerous and prominent white flecks; interior
deep purple. Season late.
Another caprifig commonly designated as No.4 differs from the above in having
profichi with prominent ribs producing a corrugated surface, and with prominent neck
distinctly flattened. Roeding No.4 has no particular value as a caprifig except for the
late season of ripening of the profichi.
Rotondo (syn. Caprificus sphaerocarpa Gasparrini). Description of Gasparrini (1845)
quoted by Vallese (1964). Profichi spherical, somewhat ribbed; stalk short; color green;
pulp light violet.
Samson (syn. Markarian No. 1). See description by Condit (1920a, 1947) and
illustration by him (1920a). Original California tree is on the Stanford ranch, Vina;
introduced from Asia Minor by the Bulletin Company, San Francisco, 1882; propagated
and distributed by W. H. Samson, Corning, as Capri No.5, and described by him in 1906
as a very compact grower and productive of all three crops; later distributed by Henry
Markarian, Fresno, as Markarian No.1; large trees commonly found in commercial fig
plantings.
Tree moderately vigorous, exceptionally dense or much branched; trunks of older
trees characteristically furrowed or creased; terminal buds green; leaves medium, 5-
lobed, sometimes with additional basal lobes; sinuses of moderate depth; base cordate;
margins crenate; surface somewhat glossy.
Mamme crop fair; figs medium, oblique-turbinate, with short neck and stalk; ribs
fairly prominent; color green, with numerous and conspicuous white flecks; interior
deep purple.
Profichi crop fair; figs medium to large, turbinate, with neck prominent and thick or
sometimes tapering and up to 1/2 inch long; ribs moderately prominent; white flecks
large, and very conspicuous on immature fruit; color light green; bloom prominent;
interior violet-purple; stamens generally good but sometimes rusty and unproductive
of pollen. Midseason. (Plate 6.) Profichi are invariably affected by a virus which causes
some of the young figs to become malformed and to drop, or to be blemished with
mosaic spots in the form of a ring or crescent. See Condit (1920a, fig. 12), and Condit
and Horne (1943).