It seems that Hardy Chicago could be called not only a Mt Etna fig, and not only Mongibello but also, say, Dark Purple 1900M (thereby blowing Nero 600M off the mountain, so to speak). Rafaelissimmo has noted elsewhere:
Rifugio Sapienza, an isolated tourist hotel and restaurant, a ski resort and summer Etna hiking point, sits at 1910 meters, more than 6,200 feet, well over a mile high up stark volcanic mountainside. The terrain is more or less barren beyond patchy shrubs and grasses, except for a few trees purposefully planted around the hotel and restaurant. Apparently a fig bush was also planted from which someone clipped and brought to Belleclare Nursery?
Rifugio Sapienza on Mt Etna sits at about the same latitude and altitude as Durango, Colorado in the Rocky Mountains.
Photos of Rifugio Sapienza in winter and summer below.
Belleclare Nursery (on Long Island now closed) by way of Martha Stewart visit: http://tinyurl.com/pzkg3tz
"Hardy Chicago was named by Fred Born but there have been documented posts that it got to Chicago via Brooklyn, I think that Belleclare had this fig and somebody inherited Belleclare's original notes and posted it on the [F4F] forum, the original fig was listed as coming from the "Rifugio di Sapienza" which is in fact on Mt. Etna, the picture of the notes is here on the [F4F] forum somewhere...and as we all know the Sicilian name of this fig "Mongibello" means beautiful mountain, referring to Mt Etna!"
Rifugio Sapienza, an isolated tourist hotel and restaurant, a ski resort and summer Etna hiking point, sits at 1910 meters, more than 6,200 feet, well over a mile high up stark volcanic mountainside. The terrain is more or less barren beyond patchy shrubs and grasses, except for a few trees purposefully planted around the hotel and restaurant. Apparently a fig bush was also planted from which someone clipped and brought to Belleclare Nursery?
Rifugio Sapienza on Mt Etna sits at about the same latitude and altitude as Durango, Colorado in the Rocky Mountains.
Photos of Rifugio Sapienza in winter and summer below.
Belleclare Nursery (on Long Island now closed) by way of Martha Stewart visit: http://tinyurl.com/pzkg3tz
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