![]() It has the same cold hardiness and the fruit are nearly the same in taste. ‘Texas Everbearing’ is a slightly better fig in my opinion than ‘Brown Turkey’ for many areas of Texas. There are three differences – the flesh is more amber in color as opposed to the reddish-amber of the ‘Brown Turkey’ pulp, the leaves have three lobes as opposed to the five lobes of ‘Brown Turkey’ and the shape of the tree is more upright instead of broad-spreading. ![]() My experience is that it is a different variety, although somewhat similar. Some say it is the same variety as ‘Brown Turkey’ and some say that it is similar but not the same variety. ‘Texas Everbearing’ With this variety there are a lot of conflicting opinions. The leaves have five lobes as opposed to the three-lobed leaves of many figs. It produces two crops a year with good cultural conditions, one in late May-June and another in late September to early November. It fruits on new wood (growth) so if you have an exceptionally cold winter and the plant gets killed to the ground, the plant will probably grow back and may even produce a crop the same year. The pulp has a very sweet but not too rich taste, not quite as rich as ‘Celeste.’ It has a small, nearly closed eye which is reddish in color from the very early stages of fruit development. ‘Brown Turkey’ An old time favorite, ‘Brown Turkey’ is a medium-small fig with a violet-brown skin and reddish-amber colored pulp. Here are the most favored varieties grown in Texas. Of this large number only a few are varieties that can be grown and fruited successfully with good fruit quality in Texas. There are more than 700 varieties of common garden figs. Even though figs can stand very dry conditions, they will not fruit unless they receive sufficient moisture. Irrigation is needed in the drier parts of our state. In the North, Far West and the Panhandle, protection from cold winter winds is needed. Figs grow extremely well in our coastal areas and can be grown anywhere in Texas with proper care. When settlers came to Texas they brought figs with them or got “starts” from the missions. This is what is referred to as the common garden fig and the subject of this article.įigs have been grown by Texans since the early history of our state. persistent - common figs: Do not need to be pollinated to bear fruit. intermediate - San Pedro figs: Do not need to be pollinated to set a breba (first) crop but do need pollination to set the main crop. Smyrna figs must be grown in the presence of Caprifigs and pollinating insects to bear fruit. Without pollination the fruit will drop before it matures. caducous - Smyrna figs: Need to be pollinated to mature fruit. There are three important classes of edible figs: 1. Caprifigs are male figs which produce pollen and are not good to eat. There are two basic kinds of figs - caprifigs and edible figs. The “seed” inside the fig are not seed at all but fruit that failed to develop. When you eat a fig you are eating the container that holds the true fruit. Figs are an enlarged, fleshy and hollow stem bearing closely massed tiny flowers on their inner wall. The fruit we all call the fig is not a fruit in the true sense of the word. There are also a few hybrids with other members of the Ficus genus. The only Ficus that are cultivated for their fruit are the Ficus carica (the common fig) and Ficus sycomorus (the sycamore fig of Egypt). Ficus is a rather large genus containing more than 2,000 tropical and semi-tropical plants. The common fig is a member of the Ficus genus from the Moraceae family (which includes mulberries). The Spanish fig that was brought to California and Texas was a variety that was later called Mission. Of course, when the Spanish came to Texas the padres brought fig plants to their missions. The Bible speaks of figs numerous times.įigs are believed to have originated in south-central Asia and spread to the Mediterranean basin to the Greeks and Romans. They have been with mankind through all of our civilized history. ![]() Some indications are that they were first cultivated about 11,000 years ago. Figs are one of the oldest cultivated fruit crops.
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