If anyone can ID this fig I would appreciate it, this photo was taken today of a mature fig tree (sorry about the rain drops, but it has been raining everyday lately) The ripe figs appear purple and green with similar interior to online photos of Brown turkey figs, but generally with more lightly colored flesh, however from what I can find the leaf shape is wrong. If no one knows what it is now I will post back with ripe fruit photos when they ripen in a couple of months. Fruit does not appear to have the long neck of a Brown turkey, it looks like a poor crop on the tree this year, we had a warmer than normal winter with only about 500 chill hours. This tree is about 10-12 ft tall and about 15 feet wide, I tried to propagate cuttings from it last winter and again this spring from green cuttings with little success, only about 20% rooted and none have leafed out yet, it does however produce very good tasting figs and over the years several people have taken cuttings from it, the tree was planted in the late 1980's / early 1990's and was slow growing.
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The photo was a branch of the mother tree, none of the cuttings I have tried to propgate have leafed out yet. I will try to get a photo of one of the small crop of figs currenlty growing on it, but they are still green, I will also plan to add a photo of a cut ripe fig when one gets ready to pick, but that is still a ways off.
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