Fig Varieties: A Monograph - uri=ucce.ucdavis

February, 1955] Condit: Fig Varieties
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Suggestive Key for Identification of California Caprifigs,
Profichi Crop
Internal Color of figs white with no trace of pink, violet, or purple.
External Color green or yellowish green.
Figs becoming soft and edible when mature, with little if any pollen;
blastophagas seldom issuing from them...................................Croisic
Figs not pulpy when mature, usually with numerous pollen-bearing
stamens and insect-inhabited flowers.
Body of fig longer than broad; neck and stalk often somewhat
curved; base of leaf truncate; tree with rounded top,
spreading................................................................Stanford
Body of fig oblate or spherical; neck thick and short; base of
leaf shallowly subcordate; tree with upright branches..............Maslin No. 150
External color violet, purplish black, or green shaded with violet.
Fruit stalk or peduncle slender, generally up to 1/4 inch long, or longer.
Figs green until almost mature, then changing to purplish black;
leaves variable, nonlobed, or only shallowly lobed to lyrate or
laciniate..........................................................................Ficus palmata
Figs when immature colored brown, purplish black when mature
leaves 3- to 5-lobed.......................................................Ficus pseudo-carica
Fruit stalk or peduncle mostly thick and short.
Figs small, seldom over 1-1/4 inches in diameter; leaf petioles and
twigs purplish brown and densely pubescent; neck generally
somewhat flattened.......................................................Brawley
Figs larger, 1-1/2 inches or more in diameter; leaf petioles and twigs
green, not pubescent; green color of fruit persisting until maturity,
then becoming purplish black; neck round in cross section.................Maslin No. 91
Internal color of figs purple or violet.
Figs without a distinct neck.
Eye in center of a depression; bloom conspicuous; size medium or above;
season late.................................................................................Milco
Eye slightly protruding; bloom delicate; size medium or below; season
early...........................................................................................Roeding No. 1
Figs with a distinct neck.
Neck not prominent, short and thick, seldom up to 1/4 inch long.
Ribs prominent; surface corrugated.....................................Roeding No. 4
Ribs, if present, not forming corrugated surface.
Eye protruding from broad, rounded apex; size medium or below;
neck short.................................................................Roeding No. 1
Eye not protruding.
Eye more or less flush with the surface.
Flecks of white inconspicuous; size below medium to
small; tree with slender, upright branches; bark of
trunk scaly..............................................Roeding No. 2
Flecks of white very conspicuous; size medium to large;
tree dense; bark of trunk furrowed.....Samson
Eye somewhat depressed; bloom conspicuous............................Milco
Neck more or less prominent.
Neck flattened in majority of specimens.
Bark of tree trunk scaly; figs below medium to small; skin color
reddish brown when mature...................................Roeding No. 2
Bark of trunk smooth; figs medium; color green.........Roeding No. 4