This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
Description
Collected in: California, United States. Maintained by the Natl. Germplasm Repository – Davis. NPGS received: 26-Mar-1986.
Condit Monograph
Roeding No. 3: See descriptions by Eisen (1901, as Smyrna No.3), Roeding (1903, 1914), and Condit (1920a, 1933, 1947), with illustrations of fruit (1920a, 1933). It was introduced in 1887 by Fred Roeding, Fresno, with Roeding No.1 and Roeding No.2, from Meander Valley of Turkey. Cuttings were planted and numbered from one to three in the nursery row; No.3 proved to be the earliest in season of maturity, and No.2 the latest. Roeding No.3 shares with Stanford the distinction of being the most valuable and highly regarded Caprifig variety in California (plate 3).
In good soil, tree is vigorous, much branched, with short, slender twigs; distinguished from most common varieties by the brown or violet coloration of dormant fruit and terminal buds, and by the violet color of the Mamme figs. Leaves below medium to small, 3- to 5-lobed; middle lobe broad above, narrowing toward base; sinuses of medium depth; base subcordate; margins crenate; surface somewhat glossy.
Mamme crop generally good, usually consisting of two types of figs, both medium in size, up to 1 or 1-1/2 inches in diameter, oblate to oblique-turbinate, with or without short, thick neck; figs of one type are green or light violet in color; ribs prominent; texture somewhat soft or “punky”; apparently not fully inhabited by blastophagas; susceptible to frost injury. Figs of the second type are violet-purple in color; ribs either not prominent or entirely absent; texture solid or firm; white flecks small and inconspicuous, somewhat masked by violet coloration of skin; eye depressed, in center of the broadly flattened apex; scales reddish brown; interior purple, with meat also tinged with violet.
Profichi crop very good; polleniferous or uninhabited figs inclined to stay green and remain on tree; Insectiferous figs variable, from medium to large, up to 2 inches in diameter and over 2 inches in length, pyriform, with neck prominent, sometimes curved, and often distinctly flattened; apex broad, flattened, with the eye protruding from center of a slight depression; eye scales chaffy, erect at maturity; ribs prominent, narrow; color light green, with white flecks numerous and conspicuous; bloom prominent; interior purple. Season early. (Plate 6.)
Mammoni crop small but ample.
If you'd like your banner to be shown here and throughout Fig Database, send us a message.
Photos Add Your Image
No Images Found
YouTube Videos
No Videos Found
