One of the most spherical and brightest yellow of figs is Long Yellow, also known as Yellow Long Neck. The long neck helps to set off the big gold orb. The very symmetrical and especially smooth spherical shape, with its large size and bright yellow glow both inside and out, makes it natural to think… Continue reading Sun Fig

While agave flavor honey figs like Long Yellow and Mary Lane (Kalamata) are the lightest, brightest of the type, in skin and pulp, most honey figs tend toward a somewhat darker, denser gold look and flavor. In different ways, many different types of honey figs are reliably productive and mid-ripening, including: Excel, Lemon, LSU Gold, Kadota,… Continue reading Honey Figs

Punch berry figs, also known simply as berry figs or dark berry figs, include some of the most premier or prized flavors of figs, such as Black Madeira (aka Figo Preto), Bordissot Noire, and Col de Dame Noire. Even Mt Etna, by many names, probably the most reliable and most common fig in the northeast… Continue reading Punch Berry Figs

Certain figs are more figgy, resinous, than others, and a few cultivars – the “Bordeaux” types in particular, Resin Berry – may have more resinous taste, or aftertaste, than most. Ronde de Bordeaux, Violette de Bordeaux, Mission, Noire de Caromb, and the like, seem to have a more resinous flavor than typical, an aged or molasses-caramel flavor, sometimes described as… Continue reading Resin Berry Figs (“Bordeaux”)

With flavors ranging between brown sugar and resin berry (“Bordeaux”), the sugar-berry figs are neither fully sugar figs nor fully berry figs but a mix of the two. These dark-skin figs have a light generic berry or fresh fruity flavor compared to the true berry figs’ intense jam flavors. More fruit juice flavors, somewhat resinous, less berry jam or punch flavors. Sugar-berry cultivars include… Continue reading Sugar-Berry Figs

Citric Berry Figs, also known as “Adriatic” figs, have green skin and red pulp. These are intense strawberry flavored figs with an acidic or citric tang. Nordland from Switzerland – known as Longue d’Aout in France and Cucumber in the US – is early ripening and especially good for short season growers. Ischia Green, also known as Paradiso and Battaglia… Continue reading Citric Berry Figs

Honey-berry figs can be found in the fig flavor spectrum between yellow honey figs and green berry figs. The skins of the honey-berry figs tend to be greenish or yellowish with light red and translucent pulp, darker than pink, lighter than berry red, partly honey, partly berry flavored. Occasionally the pulp can range to golden or to dark red. Mainly, the pulp… Continue reading Honey-Berry Figs

Caramel figs have light colored pulp that ranges between beige, tan, tawny, and orange, with various sugar or mild honey flavors, and dark skin. They are notable for their unusual combination of light colored pulp and dark skin. LSU Purple has a maple sugar candy flavor. Wuhan is a popular fig in China with a… Continue reading Caramel Figs

Honey figs are the lightest and brightest figs in flavor and skin color, having golden pulp and yellow or gold skin and a light honey flavor. Agave figs are the lightest flavored honey figs, such as Mary Lane and Long Yellow, which have agave-like flavors and bright yellow skin and are very juicy.  “The nectar made from… Continue reading Agave Honey Figs

Certain dark skin varieties of figs can taste a lot like brown sugar. Brown sugar figs have brown or amber pulp, and sometimes brown skin, or blue, lavender, or purple. Brown sugar figs, per their name, are often very sweet. A few brown sugar fig varieties include the very productive LSU Improved Celeste and LSU… Continue reading Brown Sugar Figs