Fig

Figs produce fruit without pollination. (og) Low growing, highly branched shrub-like tree in southern part of state. Easy to grow and a common backyard crop. Subject to freeze kill but usually regrows. Soft pear-shaped fruit has rough texture but tender exterior and a delicious rose-colored flesh, great for fresh use or jams. Types include "wild turkey" (a land race) and "Alma". Grasshoppers love the foliage and fruit in some years. Diseases include root rot nematodes, rust, and fruit rots. (ag)

Alma

Medium-sized, cream-colored fig. Productive and very sweet. Somewhat cold-tender when young. (ns)

Recommended by mg, ns

Celeste / Malta

Small, dark, high-quality fig that ripens in June. Vigorous and productive. Well-adapted to all Texas fig areas. Good preserved and fresh. (ns) Bears mostly on last year's growth.

Recommended by mg, ns, og

Texas Everbearing / Brown Turkey

Medium-to-large fruit, good quality, ripening in late June and for a continuing period thereafter. The first crop, called Breba figs, is produced on the past season's growth. The figs will be larger, light-brown. Later figs, borne on the current seasons's wood, will be smaller and somewhat darker. Vigorous variety. (ns)

Recommended by mg, ns, og

REFERENCES

• Aggie Horticulture - Figs