Fig Varieties: A Monograph - uri=ucce.ucdavis

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open, 1/4 inch across; scales brown when mature; color green; pulp red; texture fine;
quality very good. One of the best for table use; equally good dried.
Amesas. Described and illustrated by Mauri (1942). Two different varieties are found
at Mechtras under this name, which means “dull.” Amesas E.A. Tree very productive;
leaves 5-lobed. Figs are small, globular, and green, with rose-colored pulp that is
insipid and ferments readily; quality of dried fruit poor. Amesas E.P. Tree with leaves
nonlobed or shallowly 3-lobed; figs small; stalk short; pulp pale rose, of fine texture but
tasteless.
Aranim-Amellal. Described and illustrated by Mauri (1939b, 1942), who reports that
Aranim is masculine for Taranimt (“reed”); but the exact connection between the word
and this variety of fig is not clear. Amellal means “white.” See also Blin (1942).
Hanoteau and Letourneux (1872) list Aranim as a variety not requiring caprification.
Tree of moderate vigor; leaves 5-lobed.
Figs medium, short-pyriform, about the same size and shape as those of Aranim-
Aberkane; stalk short; skin thin, parchmentlike, closely adherent to the meat; eye
closed, with greenish-white scales bordered brown; color green; pulp red; flavor sweet ;
quality very good. Defects are the thin skin and the tendency to split. Counts show an
average of 864 seeds for split fruits and 744 for nonsplit fruits.
Bardajic (syns. Bardajik, Bardakjik). Name from two Turkish words, bardak,
“pitcher,” and jik, “small,” the fruit resembling a water pitcher in general shape. See
accounts by Eisen (1901), Roeding (1903, 1914), Rixford (1918a), Nadir and Halit (1929),
Hagan (1929), Condit (1920b, 1947), and Ozbek (1949). A variety grown in coastal
districts near Smyrna, where residents and visitors become familiar with the early
morning cries of the peddler, “Bardajic! Bardajic!” as he calls attention to the fresh figs
carried in panniers on the back of a donkey.
Tree compact, spreading; leaves large, 5-lobed, with shallow sinuses.
Figs large near the coast, smaller in the interior, pyriform, with prominent neck; stalk
long, slender (short, according to Ozbek); ribs distinct; eye small; color green; white
flecks scattered, small; skin thin, checking crisscross at maturity; pulp scarlet; flavor
sweet. Quality excellent fresh, but not good for drying because of the dark, tough skin,
and red color of pulp.
Ozbek gives the average weight of Bardajic figs as 52 grams and the number of seeds
per gram as 1057. Experience with the Bardajic at Fresno California, has been
unsatisfactory, on account of splitting of the fruit on the tree.
Blowers. Described by Eisen (1901), and Rixford (1918a), as one of the varieties
imported by the Bulletin Company, San Francisco, in 1882, and first planted on the place
of R. B. Blowers, Woodland; never planted commercially, and probably lost. Figs
medium, globose; ribs prominent; color lemon yellow; pulp pink.
Castelhano Branco (syn. Euchário Branco). See account by Mello Leotte (1901), and
description with illustrations by Bobone (1932). The former states that the word