Black Mission

Variety of Fig · Ficus carica

Dark purple California classic with rich, syrupy flavour, superb fresh or dried.

Also known as: Mission, Franciscana, Beers Black

🇪🇸 Spain 1768

Taste & characteristics

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Parentage: spanischer Ursprung, ueber die kalifornischen Missionen eingefuehrt
Pollination: self-fertile
Fruit weight: 45 g

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Given in thirds of a month (early / mid / late) for the northern hemisphere in a temperate climate; altitude and season shift them.

Medium, black-purple fruit with red-pink flesh; very sweet and intense, often honey-like when field-dried.

Very vigorous, large tree; needs heat and space.

Two crops; the large main crop is the commercially important one.

The most important fresh and dried fig of California.

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