Anyone grow a similar fig? I’m hoping to get a few ideas to help me identify this variety. It came from an unknown mature tree in my area. The tree is probably around 30 years old.
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Maybe Beall ?
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I agree it does look like Beall. Also like Vern’s BT or Neveralla/Osborne Prolific
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Mariani Carini Green. Pure Adriatic type of fig. Like Lake Spur. Fig is smaller (~40g), earlier and more hardy. Larger figs tend to split more than smaller figs.
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Looks so yummy!
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Violet Sepor. Perfect combination of color, texture and flavor. I can’t decide if the berry flavor is any different from the Adriatic figs. Not a good, or the best fig taster. 
Thanks Stan for this fig.
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bad photo- still unsure of the type. taken from a stick cutting at a friend’s house in northern CA in 2022, it’s produced a good dozen of these so far. strawberry in the flavor, good sized figs. pictured with cucamelon for size
florea is setting a second crop and ischia put on a new flush of leaves. the greenhouse is keeping them happy in our wet and cool temps.
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Been picking a few figs here. From this morning
Unknown Adriatic fig. Seems earlier than most others.
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How does your Green Michurinska’s taste compare to other Adriatics you’ve tasted? Is it much earlier than the other Adriatics? I propagated some GM gift plants this year but I haven’t tasted it.
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I think Unk. Prosciutto is the best tasting Adriatic fig I’ve had. Green Michurinska is probably the earliest. It’s probably worth noting that it seems to have more issues with splitting than other Adriatics.
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@SMC_zone6 Interesting on splitting. A frequent poster on ourfigs.com grows a large fig collection in Z. 6 Rhode Island and put Green Michurinska in the category Nearly Immune To Splitting. At least at his location.
Have you tasted Adriatic JH or Battaglia Green? They’re still producing a few ripe figs here and wow are they a pure slug of strawberry jam, if I let them get ugly. AJH is slightlty earlier than BG, neither one splitting this year.
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I have Adriatic JH and like it a lot. I don’t have BG.
I’ve come around to the idea that a ton of figs out there are mislabeled. Fig growing seems to be such a transient hobby that attracts so many scammers and unscrupulous sellers and renamed figs passed off as something new, that it’s hard to say if any two people’s version of the same fig are really the same fig – unless they got it from the same source. I have no doubt that some of the stuff in my collection is probably mislabeled. All of which is to say, maybe I need to add the Rhode Island guy’s version of Green Michurinska to my collection too!
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Agree. This spring I air layered a graft of Green Michurinska I got from Kremp Florist and gave it to a friend who planted it this fall, hoping for a mild winter. I might get a cutting or two off it in a couple years.
Diving into Adriatic comments, several veteran growers say as a class they produce high quality fruit even into the colder months of Sept/Oct whereas some other classes of figs tend not to. That’s true here.
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