Fig Database®: Coll de Dame Mutante

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Coll de Dame Mutante

https://www.figdatabase.com/variety-details/2001/coll-de-dame-mutante

Possible Synonyms / AKA:

CDD Mutant, CDD Mutante, CDD mutant color / Bicolor, CDD Mutant Color, CdD tri-color, Tri Color, CdD T, CDD V2, Col de Dame Mutante
Introduced By:
Carlos (The Fig Finder)
Origin:
Spain
Main Flavor Group:
Dark Berry - From mildly to very sweet, with distinct berry notes complemented by a touch of acidity. They often feature subtle complexity, with additional layers of flavor that enhance their rich and balanced profile.
Family Group:
Fig Type:
Common - Self fertile and will grow anywhere conditions are suitable
Cold Hardy:
N/A
Container Variety:
N/A
Easy Rooting:
N/A
Main Season:
late
Availability:
Difficult
Breba Crop:
N/A
Seed Crunch:
mild
Eye:
small
Skin Toughness:
moderate
Fruit Size:
Medium
Rain Resistance:
Low
Tree Vigor:
Medium
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Description

This beautiful variety was found by Carlos from Spain on October of 2016. It is a medium sized, soft skin and jammy flesh with a very defined neck as many of the CDD's signature feature. It develops phenomenal and appealing and colorful stripes unlike any other to almost purple in color as it matures with faint evidences of any striping. It is a tree of medium vigor producing mostly 5 lobbed leaves.

Be aware, there is now a supposedly new "Mutante Variation #2" floating around by Steve Froeschi. On a post he made on the Facebook group What The Fig, he wrote:

"Phase Ripening of Mutante

Variation #2

Rafael Santangelo You always make me do all this work, LOL Here are some of the pictures and an excerpt from my "Mutante Reveal post" I am planning for this fall. This part is in reference to the comment I was stating about ripening and the stripes of Variation #2. I call it Variation #2 relative to Dave Serricchio Sr Version which I call, Variation #1. Dave's version is the one I consider to be the original. I have a partial write up with more information on the home page of my website, figandolivetreegrowers.com, under the pics of the week collection.

But for this post, I just wanted to show the different Ripening Phases of Variation #2. I wanted to point out the pulp in each phase with relation to where the stripes and color changes are. BTW those stripes can range from brick red, to purple, and the skin can range from yellow to green. Finally, ending up when it is fully ripe with an almost solid brick color with cracks in the skin and a deep red, juicy pulp."

As always, be your own judge and don't just go by what someone else says or how much a "new variety" gets hyped.

By Carlos, who found this very saught after variety:

Hi friends, lately I have received from some people many questions about the variety I discovered a year ago (2016) in a valley near Barcelona in Spain. As the name of my page says, one of my great hobbies apart to riding in my Harley Davidson and football are the fig trees. I have this hobby thanks to my father Carlos Jimenez. My father was born in Andalucia region of Spain where there is also a lot of passion for figs, not as a study fruit but as a very important fruit to eat fresh and dry throughout the year especially during the winter and Christmas.

"When I was a child my father taught me to differentiate the figs trees , those that had Early figs (Brevas), which only had a production of figs and above all to appreciate its magnificent taste. Thanks to these teachings , today I am an amateur to this magnificent and ancient tree.

Well, a few years ago I start to tried to identify and describe the fig trees that were close to where I live. Thanks to Montserrat Pons and his book “LES FIGUERES A LES ILLES BALEARS” , the research center LA ORDEN in Extremadura (Spain) with his book “VARIEDADES DE HIGUERA”, the book “LE FIGUIER” by Pierre Baud , comments from fans of the website Infojardin, information of friends in Facebook as well as of my friends and of my father , now i have been able to have a collection of about 50 varieties.

As I said above, searching for new figs and varieties, in October 2016 I found one which was very special . I find a fig tree inside a medium-sized fig tree garden where the fig trees of the variety Coll DE Dama Blanca and Coll DE Dama Negra were predominant, which was very special. This fig tree was different from all others because the fruit it had was two colors. The mature fig presented lines that went from the peduncle (neck) to the ostiolo ( Wasp hole), these lines were greenish and brown. At first I thought I was in front of a fig tree of Coll DE Dama RIMADA , but I quickly inspected the tree and could see that the immature figs were green and had no streaks.