Our Sugar Figs

Atreano

Bred in Durazzano italy. Broght over to US by Hanc; according to one green world, naturally dwarfing tree; good for container 

Black Jack

Large, purple-brown fig that goes by many names- Black Spanish, Texas Blue Giant. and others.

Brown Turkey

Small, brown fig with reddish flesh. It is the most popular fig in the southeast and the home garden. 

Brunswick

Sweet, melon-flavored fig with brown skin. The fig is cold-hardy, but it does not hold up in rainy weather.

Celeste

Second most popular among backyard growers in the southeast, US. The fig is small, purplish, brown with an amber interior. Sugar figs are perfect fresh or for preserving. Our tree was collected from a grower in the SC upstate.

Hunt

Long, light brown fig with sweet flavor. Bred in Eatonton, Georgia by B.W. Hunt in the 1920's.  This fig was used to parent several others developed in the LSU program. 

LSU Red

Unofficial release of LSU. Small red figs with pinkish flesh.  Our cutting were collected from a grower in Charleston, SC. 

LSU Purple 

Another fig released by LSU, dark purple skin with reddish interior. Takes about 4 years to mature enough to produce sweet, sugar-flavored fruit.

Nana's Unknown

This tree grows in a front yard garden in Columbia, SC. It's pruned back each year to keep a bushing growth habit. Delicious amber flesh that's great fresh.

Osborne Prolific

A small to medium-sized fig introduced by an English nursery owner in London in 1879. It founds its way to a grower in California in the 1990s. 

Popa's Prescott Unknown

Pop took a limb from an old tree on Prescott Avenue and stuck it in a bucket. Five years later, that tree stands 12 feet tall and makes the most delicious sugar bombs. 

Texas Everbearing

Another standard brown turkey type suitable for very warm climates. Produces two crops of medium-sized figs.  

Stone Unknown

This off-shoot of an heirloom tree grown on the Stone family farmstead in Jenkinsville, SC was collected in 2015.