Fig Varieties: A Monograph - uri=ucce.ucdavis

February, 1955] Condit: Fig Varieties
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Gemini II. Described and illustrated by Vallese (1909). Leaves very small, bright
green above, ordinarily deeply 7-lobed, more rarely 5- or 3-lobed. Profichi conical,
elongated, oblique, ribbed, rather long-stalked; color bright green, with white flecks,
becoming yellowish violet at complete maturity; interior light violet.
Mammoni and mamme crops not observed.
Grosso. Described and illustrated by Vallese (1909). Leaves of medium size,
scabrous, deep green above, lighter below, asymmetrical, 5- or 3-lobed, sinuses deep
and broad. Profichi very large, oblique-pyriform; apex rounded, slightly nippled at
center; color bright green, changing at maturity to pale green tinged with violet;
interior violet.
Hamma. Introduced in 1901 from Algiers as a very valuable variety, found growing
by a stone quarry above the Jardin d’Essai du Hamma. “It is probably from this tree
that the Blastophaga was introduced into California in 1899.” (Swingle, in description of
P.I. No. 6,475; see also, No. 6,481, P.I. Inventory No. 10.)
Tree vigorous; leaves medium, 3- to 5-lobed; base truncate to subcordate. Mamme
crop fair at Riverside, California; figs below medium, pyriform, with prominent short
neck; white flecks prominent; surface smooth, hardly at all ribbed; color green; interior
violet.
Profichi crop good; figs below medium, pyriform, with prominent neck and short
stalk; color green until mature, then becoming reddish violet with conspicuous bloom;
interior violet. Quality fair, but not worthy of commercial planting.
Howard (syn. Solms-Laubach No. 3). Described by Eisen (1901); received (probably
at Niles, California) from Solms-Laubach, Naples, and named for L. 0. Howard. A
violet-brown fig with violet interior; probably never widely propagated or distributed.
Kara Mor. (Turkish name signifies “purplish black.”) This variety supplies over sixty
per cent of the caprifigs of the Meander Valley, according to Condit and Baskaya (1948).
Tree large, vigorous; leaves deeply lobed, much like those of Sari Lop. Figs large,
top-shaped, with neck; color purplish black; interior purple.
Magnissalis. See account of Roeding (1914) and description by Condit (1920a)
introduced from Aidin, Turkey, by G. C. Roeding in 1901, and named alter S. G.
Magnissalis; now rare or nonexistent in California.
Tree vigorous, densely branched, with large leaves; terminal buds green. Mamme
crop generally good; figs medium, spherical, mostly without neck; eye large,
protruding from apex; scales green, or violet-tinted; ribs fairly prominent; color green,
flushed with light violet; white flecks few, scattered; interior purple.
Profichi above medium to large, pyriform, with prominent neck; ribs narrow, very
slightly elevated; eye fairly large, not depressed; color green, with delicate bloom; white
flecks irregular in size, fairly conspicuous; interior purple. A green fig, but placed in this
section because of the violet mamme figs.
Montesino. Described and illustrated by Vallese (1909). Leaves medium in size,
generally 3-lobed, but rarely entire or nearly so; sinuses rather shallow.