Native de Argentile DFIC# 86

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Native de Argentile
Maintained by the Natl. Germplasm Repository - Davis. NPGS received: 01-Jan-1900.


DFIC# 86:
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs...lay.pl?1002428

[JD]

[crademan]

Beautiful, JD! When does Hative d'Argentueil ripen in Tallahassee, and how does it taste?

[Rafaelissimmo]

Hative d’Argenteuil is correct name.

[crademan]

Thanks, Rafaelissimmo! The National Germplasm Repository uses a name that Jon Ver@@@@'s F4F database suggests is wrong.
Under Varieties [http://figs4fun.com/Varieties.html] F4F says
"NATIVE DE ARGENTILE
SYN: HATIVE DE ARGENTUEIL
DESCRIPTION
[A]n obvious misnomer [for Hative de Argentueil]. (006c)
SKIN COLOR:
FLESH COLOR:
BREBA CROP:
ORIGIN:
HISTORY:
FIGS 4 FUN COLLECTION:
Accession No. 2225 (2-25)
Accession No. 0928
SOURCES: UC Davis DFIC0086 (049a)"

[dondan]

This is a French fig from Argenteuil, now a suburb of Paris. The name Hâtive d'Argenteuil means Early of Argenteuil = Argenteuil Early.