Description
The tree at Riverside is only moderately vigorous; terminal buds are green to dingy brown. Leaves medium, glossy above, variable, some 3-lobed with shallow sinuses and broad lobes, others 5-lobed with deep sinuses and long, narrow lobes, both upper and basal lobes commonly Auricled ; base cordate; margins very shallowly crenate. (Plate 13.)
Breba crop fair; figs large, up to 2 inches in diameter and 2-3/4 inches in length, oblique-pyriform, with prominent neck; stalk short; eye medium, open; white flecks large, scattered; surface dull; ribs few, only slightly elevated; color light green; meat thin, tinged with violet; pulp dark strawberry; flavor rich, sweet; quality good.
Second-crop figs large, up to 2-1/4 inches broad and 3 inches long, turbinate, mostly without neck, or neck present and gradually narrowed from body to stalk; average weight 73 grams; stalk short; ribs branched, slightly elevated; apex broad, flattened; eye above medium, open, scales chaffy or pink, with scarious margins; white flecks few, large, widely spaced; color yellowish green; pulp light strawberry, hollow; flavor fairly rich. Quality mediocre; dried color poor.
Caprified specimens have dark-strawberry, solid pulp, with large seeds; average weight 88 grams. Recommended for trial in coastal sections of California only. (Plate 25, A.)
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