ADRIATIC

Two crops. Large, greenish-yellow. Red pulp of very fine flavor. Fruits well near coast or inland. Consistent bearer. Good fresh or dried. Well suited for pots. (002) (004)

A medium greenish-yellow fig with light strawberry pulp and good flavor. Turbinate with small or no neck. Leaf: base is subcordate to truncate; usually 5-lobed; middle lobe spatulate. Very subject to mosaic. Light breba crop. Well-adapted in Northern California and the Northwest. Disappointing in the South as it leafs out early and is susceptible to damage from late freezes. Good all-purpose fig. (006)

One of the [principal] varieties for producing dried figs. It produces mainly second crop fruit of greenish-yellow skin color and amber pulp. Harvest time from mid-August to mid-October. Interior valleys. (007)

A large, sweet, rich, green yellow, very fine flavor fig. Two crops annually. (013)

Transplanted from the Mediterranean, the Adriatic fig is the most prolific of all the varieties. The high sugar content, retained as the fruit dries to a golden shade, make this fig the prime choice for fig bars and pastes. (015)

[T]urbinate with short, thick neck and short stalk; above medium size; green to yellowish-green with red pulp; of distinctive flavor and very good quality. In early, minor, breba crop the fruits are oblique-pyriform, large, green, often tinged with purplish-red with dark-red pulp and strong flavor. (019)

In Queensland, 'Brown Turkey', 'Adriatic', 'Genoa' and 'Purple Genoa' perform very well. (019)

Origin: Central Italy, Small to medium, skin greenish, flesh strawberry colored. Good, all-purpose fig. Light breba crop. Large vigorous tree leafs out early; subject to frost damage. Prune to force new growth. (023)(075)

Skin and flesh colors: Green-yellow; strawberry Widely adapted. Grows and produces well in San Francisco area. This is an old variety that reliably bears two crops annually. Excellent fresh. (022)

Origin central Italy. Breba crop light and good late crop of small to medium, skin greenish, flesh strawberry colored fruits with an open eye. The fruit can split otherwise a superb eating fig. Planted for market and for drying. Large vigorous tree leafs out early; subject to frost damage. Prune to force new growth. Railtons catalogue of 1880' states that variety ripens in February in Victoria. Has been available commercially in Australia since the 1880's and is still available from nurseries. Glowinski states that this variety is better suited to warmer areas and is used mostly for drying. Widely available commercial variety. (Australia) (021)

From central Italy, Small to medium, skin greenish, flesh strawberry colored. Good, all-purpose fig, but no good in mild-summer areas. Large vigorous tree leafs out early; subject to frost damage. Prune hard to force new growth. (026) (026a)

The [following] names were cited as synonyms in Fig Varieties: Hilgardia, Vol. 23, No. 11, 1955, p. 406, by Condit; and in Ortho Book 'Citrus and Subtropical Fruit' Memo, 1985, by Claude Sweet: Strawberry, Verdone, Grosse Verte, White Adriatic, Fico di Fragola, Nebian. (049b)

Info on this variety from Sanders, Figs in Containers, Fruit Gardeners, California Rare Fruit Growers, Vol. 23, No. 6, December 1991: Greenish yellow, red pulp, fine flavor. Medium open eye. Good fresh, jams, dried. Consistent producer. Large vigorous tree. Prune severly to force new growth. Info from Commercial Dried Fig Production in California, University of California, Leaflet 21051, p. 5, November 1978: Adriatic is probably of Italian origin, although it is popular in England, where it is known as Grosse Verte. It produces few breba-crop figs. The second crop is plentiful. Used primarily in the manufacture of fig paste. Leafs out 7 to 10 days earlier than other varieties, thus more subject to spring frost injury. Has capacity to initiate new growth and produce some crop in frost years. Harvesting starts in late August and continues into October, if the weather is favorable. The variety is subject to spoilage organisms. (049b)