Negronne Additional Information

Small jet black fruits; deep red pulp; very fine flavor fresh or dried. Two crops a year in cool areas. Vigorous and hardy; productive in pots. (002)

Purplish-black fruit with rich strawberry pulp. Considered by many the finest tasting fig. Popular in the Northwest and West. Needs protection in cold winter areas. Good for home planting as tree is dwarf and prolific in fruit production. Closed eye. Zones 7b-9. (003)

Large almost black fruit with a very deep red pulp and a distinctive, but agreeable acid flavor. Brebas are pyriform with a thick, tapering neck; main crop figs are spherical or pyriform to obovate, often oblique without neck. Medium eye. Leaf: base truncate to shallowly cordate; middle lobe spatulate, side lobes latate. Probably needs heat to develop the best flavor. Excellent fresh or dried. Well-adapted in the South and Southwest. Fairly hardy. (Note: Condit calls this variety Bordeaux. See the Introduction for a discussion of this issue.) Synonyms: Beer's Black, Bordeaux, Petite Figue Violette, Violette de Bordeaux. Bordeaux is a French region which grows many varieties of figs. Condit's Bordeaux is usually and appropriately called Negronne in Bordeaux (after the town of Negronne which is apparently its place of origin) . Giorgio Gallesio coined the Cuore, which means "heart-shaped," in 1817 for the fig already known as Rubado in Liguria. (006)

A small, jet black fig from Spain with very good flavor. Good for cooler climates. Two crops. It's highly productive in pots. (013)

Listed by George Neilson in 1874 as being grown at the RVHS gardens at Burnley. No description. A variety of the same name is described by Whealy as having " small black fruit with excellent tasting red pulp. of good flavor fresh or dried. " Still available in the USA used for drying or fresh. No known source in Australia. (Australia) (021)

A Spanish (or possibly French) variety; the fruit is small, black-skinned with deep red flesh; needs some heat--it crops in Portland OR, but not Seattle. (036)

(Burnley 1896) Facciola 1990 lists Negronne [Bordeaux, Violette de Bordeaux] - Reasonable breba crop purplish-black skin, pith tinged violet, pulp strawberry, rich. Main crop small, spherical/pyriform, obovate, pith white. (Australia)(060)

Condit's Bordeaux. Identical with the commercial variety 'Petite Negri.' (001c)

I have Sal's Fig & Negronne (aka Violette de Bordeaux). They rank among my favorites because of their productivity and taste. Negronne is hard to beat on taste, but Sal's is very good too. (907)

"Negronne" is doing OK but still not enough production to make a judgement. [Puget Sound] (092)

Negronne
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Small jet black fruits; deep red pulp; very fine flavor fresh or dried. Two crops a year in cool areas. Vigorous and hardy; productive in pots. (002) Purplish-black fruit with rich strawberry pulp. Considered by many the finest tasting fig. Popular in the Northwest and West. Needs protection in cold winter areas. Good for home planting as tree is dwarf and prolific in fruit production. Closed eye. Zones 7b-9. (003) Large almost black fruit with a very deep red pulp and a distinctive, but agreeable acid flavor. Brebas are pyriform with a thick, tapering neck; main crop figs are spherical or pyriform to obovate, often oblique without neck. Medium eye. Leaf: base truncate to shallowly cordate; middle lobe spatulate, side lobes latate. Probably needs heat to develop the best flavor. Excellent fresh or dried. Well-adapted in the South and Southwest. Fairly hardy. (Note: Condit calls this variety Bordeaux. See the Introduction for a discussion of this issue.) Synonyms: Beer's Black, Bordeaux, Petite Figue Violette, Violette de Bordeaux. Bordeaux is a French region which grows many varieties of figs. Condit's Bordeaux is usually and appropriately called Negronne in Bordeaux (after the town of Negronne which is apparently its place of origin) . Giorgio Gallesio coined the Cuore, which means "heart-shaped," in 1817 for the fig already known as Rubado in Liguria. (006) A small, jet black fig from Spain with very good flavor. Good for cooler climates. Two crops. It's highly productive in pots. (013) Listed by George Neilson in 1874 as being grown at the RVHS gardens at Burnley. No description. A variety of the same name is described by Whealy as having " small black fruit with excellent tasting red pulp. of good flavor fresh or dried. " Still available in the USA used for drying or fresh. No known source in Australia. (Australia) (021) A Spanish (or possibly French) variety; the fruit is small, black-skinned with deep red flesh; needs some heat--it crops in Portland OR, but not Seattle. (036) (Burnley 1896) Facciola 1990 lists Negronne [Bordeaux, Violette de Bordeaux] - Reasonable breba crop purplish-black skin, pith tinged violet, pulp strawberry, rich. Main crop small, spherical/pyriform, obovate, pith white. (Australia)(060) Condit's Bordeaux. Identical with the commercial variety 'Petite Negri.' (001c) I have Sal's Fig & Negronne (aka Violette de Bordeaux). They rank among my favorites because of their productivity and taste. Negronne is hard to beat on taste, but Sal's is very good too. (907) "Negronne" is doing OK but still not enough production to make a judgement. [Puget Sound] (092)