Stella
Middle row:
Nigrone, Desert King
Bottom row:
Desert king, white Marseilles (extremely ripe)
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Following a friend's advice, one green world found this wonderful new fig in a Southeast Portland neighborhood. Stella was brought here many years ago by an Italian sailor and is now cultivated and prized by his wife. Stella™ caught our attention with its large size, sweet, striking, purplish-red flesh, and its ability to ripen in our cooler climate
NEGRONNE [bordeaux / petite negri /violette de bordeaux] - This fairly hardy cultivar produces large, almost black fruit with very deep red pulp. The flavor is rich and agreeable. Breba fruit are pyriform with thick, tapering necks while the main crop fruit are spherical or pyriform to obobate often without necks. The eye is medium sized. Excellent fresh or dried but probably needs heat to develop the best flavor. The leaf has a truncate to subcordate base with the middle lobe being spatulate and the others latate. Well adapted to the South and Southwest. This dwarf and prolific cultivar is reported to be originally from Spain and is very cold hardy. It is also considered by some to be the very best tasting fig around.
| Desert King One of the best varieties for the Northwest, Desert King withstands fruit damaging, late spring frosts better than any other fig we grow. Desert King is very productive and reliable, producing abundant, yellowish-green figs with sweet and richly flavorful, strawberry colored flesh. Because it ripens in mid-summer, Desert King is a great variety for gardeners in coastal, high elevation, and other cool regions. 3100 |
MARSEILLES [lemon / lattarula / white marseille / blanche] - A fairly hardy, large, lemon colored, thin skinned fig with tender, white to light amber flesh. They are very sweet and have a high sugar content. An old, reliable variety, this fig is excellent in all respects and a favorite of those who grow it. Produces a small breba crop. The fruit are turbinate with or without short necks. They have very small but open eyes and will sour or split if watered too much while ripe. The leaf has a subcordate base, 3 to 5 lobes and a crenate margin. This slow growing, dense tree is well adapted to the South.
