Both of these cultivars produce black-skinned, purple-fleshed spring crops (ripening in summer) bearing pollen. Both are of interest in breeding programs for their fruit color traits.
Cuervo Oscuro is currently in circulation among fig collectors. The fruit size is small and spherical. It is non-persistent.
Kara Mor is described by Ira Condit on p. 333 of his 1955 monograph. Its persistency is unknown.
This variety supplies over sixty per cent of the caprifigs of the Meander Valley, according to Condit and Baskaya (1948).
Tree large, vigorous; leaves deeply lobed, much like those of Sari Lop. Figs large, top-shaped, with neck; color purplish black; interior purple