Brunswick
Variety of Fig · Ficus carica
Large, cold-tolerant fig with a strong breba crop for northern gardens.
Also known as: Magnolia, Madonna, Dalmatian
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Taste & characteristics
Taste
mildsweet
Profile
- Pollination
- self-fertile
- Fruit weight
- 70 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Very large, elongated asymmetric fruit, green-brown with pink-amber flesh; sweet but sometimes bland in cool autumns.
Growth
Vigorous growth with large deeply lobed leaves; very frost hardy.
Yield
Reliable breba producer; the main crop does not always ripen fully in cool locations.
Notes
One of the oldest cultivars grown in northern Europe.
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