Description
Verdal Negra. Described and figured by Estelrich (1910) as a small, Black fig; planted rarely in Mallorcan orchards.
Wikipedia Translation
Verdal Negra is a cultivar of fig type common fig Ficus carica, unÃfera (with one crop per season, the figs fall) with figs epidermis with color deep Black background, and on Black reddish around the peduncle and of the ostiolus. It is grown in the collection of fig trees of Montserrat Pons i Boscana in Llucmajor (Spain).
History
He is currently cultivating it in his collection of Balearic fig trees Montserrat Pons i Boscana, from a specimen of mother fig tree located on the ''cas Toro, sa Bassa Crua'' farm, sementera owned by Miquel Cantallops in La Marina of the Llucmajor term. The sementera was formerly low mountain, and Miguel along with his father and his brother transformed it into a sementera of fig and almond trees, turning an arid and poor terrain into a wooded grove.
The variety 'Verdal Negra' is not very cultivated, named for its similarity to the variety 'Verdal Common', but Black , since if you eat a fig of each variety in the dark it could be easily confused, since the taste is exactly the same.
Features
The fig tree 'Verdal Negra' is a variety unÃfera type common fig only one crop per season, autumn figs. Tree of medium vigor, and a good development in favorable lands, clear rounded crown, with remarkable emission of regrowths. Its leaves are mostly 3 lobes, and few of 1 lobes. Its leaves with teeth present and serrated margins. 'Verdal Negra' has a low yield of figs, with an average productive yield and medium harvest period. The yellowish green conical apical bud.
The fruits of the 'Verdal Negra' fig tree are fruits of a length x width size: 34 x 49mm, the figs are medium-sized in a piriform shape, their fruits being uniform in size, but a bit asymmetrical in shape, large percentage of paired fruits and less of abnormal formations, of about 23,450 grams on average, whose epidermis is of a medium thickness, of fine texture to the touch, of strong hard consistency, with an intense Black background color, and with reddish Black color around of the peduncle and the ostiolus. Ostiolo of 2 to 3 mm with small pink scales. Peduncle of 2 to 5 mm cylindrical dark green. Very thin and sparse reticular cracks. Poor ribs. With a ºBrix (sugar grade) of 22 sweet, but rough, with garnet red flesh color. With small or absent internal cavity, with a few small achenes. The fruits ripen with a beginning of ripening of the figs on August 16 to September 28. Harvest with medium productive yield, and average harvest period.
It is used in human food in fresh and dry. Difficult abscission of the peduncle. Very sensitive to rain, resistant to transport, and detachment. Very sensitive to the opening of the ostiolus, so that they explode from the distal pore, and open leaving the pulp exposed.
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