Fig varieties collection

A small to medium fig golden-brown, pear-shaped (pyriform) fig with amber pulp. Sweet and delicate flavor. Bred in Texas, and released in 1940

Very productive fig from Sydney Australia. Most likely was brought from the Mediterranean. Very sweet figs

A very sweet, small to medium sized fruit. Can be used for fresh eating, canning and drying. The skin is light yellow with ripe-banana colored spots when ripe. The flesh is light amber colored. Small, productive, hardy trees.

Excellent tasting green fig with dark red center. Has a drop of honey on the eye. tastes like a berry Jam. It seems to be a late variety.

It is grown commercially in Brazil. Bears very large dark figs. Known in Brazil as  Roxo de Valinhos. It can bear up to 3 crops a year

Introduced into California by the Franciscan missionary Fr. Junipero Serra who planted it at the San Diego mission in 1769. Widely planted in California commercially. Good tasting and very sweet flavor. 

Originated in Calabria region in Italy. The fruit shape is round. Tastes is sweet and juicy. thick skin. bears two crop

We collected this variety from Brooklyn, NY after seeing how cold hardy it is. The tree bears two crops of round dark figs with very good  flavor, we named it Brooklyn dark. 

Very popular fig in the US. The tree bears two crops of very large figs. Mild sweet flavor. 

Medium size figs with yellow skin. Originally from Syria. Excellent tasting honey fig. The tree develops a straight and thick trunk quickly and can easily trained as a standard shape tree. Grows well in ground or in pot. 

Fruit is large and quality is fair. Second crop is sweet with excellent flavor. Tree is slow growing and spreading, from St. Michael, Azores. Good tree for growing in a pot. 

Very sweet and early variety. It has proved to be cold hardy in Pennsylvania. Celeste is perhaps the most common variety in southern states. Celeste JR comes from a Louisiana grower that tell us this is among his favorite variant. 

In Catalan language Tres Esplets translates to "Three crops". Produces a breba crop and two crops of figs. Fruit size is medium, very soft skin and very sweet pulp. Dark skin and amber pulp.

Very sweet figs grown on last year's wood (Breba crop), the main crop requires pollination by the famous fig wasp which is not available in the Northeast US. 
Does not do well in the Northeast unless the tree is protected properly. If the tree dies back, the Breba is lost. It can be grown in a container in our region.

Very early fig. Comes into bearing age very quickly. Very cold hardy, and had survived many winters unprotected on the East coast. 

A very sweet tasting fig collected from western Germany. The source tree had survived the cold winters well. We named it German red for the color of its skin. 

Excellent tasting fig. Originally from Sicily, it was grown near Chicago by an Italian immigrant and it had proved to grow well. It is very vigorous and early producer that if it dies to ground in cold areas it will sprout back and set a crop that same year. Medium size fruit with dark skin and amber color flesh. 

An excellent tasting fig originally from Jordan. tree is very productive and vigorous. 

A French variety that bears two crops. The first crop is very long, the main crop is not as elongated. Very rich and excellent flavor. Known to be cold hardy. 

Small to medium figs, with very sweet flavor. Thick skin and tight eye helps the figs resist rain.

μαύρα σύκα comes from came from island of Chios, Greece. It's a dark fig with red pulp with good flavor. It has proved to grow successfully in our area despite the cold winters.  

I obtained this fig from an Italian man who got it from Naples, Italy. Large Breba and large main crop produced by this hardy tree. Excellent tasting Breba and main crop. Very productive and the fruit is of good quality. subject to splitting under wet conditions. 

Excellent tasting black fig from France. It has a tough skin, size is medium, bears up to two crops a year. similar to a variety known as Violette de Bordeaux. 

This tree was collected from an abandoned garden behind a former Italian restaurant named Pan e Vino. The owner obtained this from Sicily. There are a White and a Dark variety planted at that garden. The restaurant was sold and new owners are need taking care of the garden. These figs were left unprotected from Pennsylvania winters for the past 4 years and have been producing every summer.

" The name Paradiso Fig™ originated from a tale about an old man in Italy that sat under his fig tree every morning eating figs and bread for breakfast. People passing would ask him if he was alright and his reply was, "This is my Paradise (Paradiso)." Genova Fig™ originates from the Northern Mediterranean, in Genova City. This plant yields an abundant amount of large fruit. The first crop is a fist size fruit, long shaped with white/golden skin and pink flesh. It is very sweet and juicy. Leaves are shaped like the palm of a hand.'

A beautiful striped fig from Spain, that is similar to Panache but is purple with dark stripes. One of the best tasting figs

Originally from Syria, this fig has been in Pennsylvania for at least the past 40 years. It is very vigorous tree and productive for this area. Very cold hardy. The fig is elongated in shape.

An excellent tasting dark fig collected from the mountains of Lebanon from a village called Lassa. It does well in the colder parts of Lebanon and deserves a trial in cold areas. Medium size figs. Souadi سوادي comes from the Arabic word Black. 

Originally from Syria, it's one of the finest tasting figs. It's named after the Sumac spice used in the middle east. The flavor is excellent and fig is juicy. Has been growing well in our cold climate. Attractive lobed leaves. 

Excellent tasting fig. The color is very unique of both skin and pulp. Collected from the village of Amar, north west Syria.

Large elongated fig, tan color with red pulp. Good flavor. Very attractive leaves, bears up to two crops. Originally from Syria.

Originally from a breeding program in California. Red flesh with amber pulp. Good flavor

This tree devlops weeping branches if was allowed to grow large without prunning. Produces excellent tasting first crop and is usually very early. Main crop also has a good flavor.