Unknown 2 fig

The 7th fig of the collection.

It's not clear this is actually an Adam - the leaves look a lot like the Avignon and the Toulouse, while the Adam is supposed to have hardly any indentations...

It's said the Adam and the Avignon are the same? Even though the Avignon is supposedly a San Pedro type?

Update 2017/05/27:

This is not an Adams fig. I purchased a proper one a few days ago and it looks nothing like this impostor... which leaves the question of trying to work out what it really is.

Black Toulouse fig [Ronde de Bordeaux?]

In its medium size pot, even though this fig could bear heavily...

Moved to a new position:

Cape Brown fig [Osbornes prolific]

It seems to be affected by the fig mosaic virus, but then this variety suffers badly.

Before transplanting. Note the low side shoot.

In its 45cm pot.

Discoloured leaves from fig mosaic virus.

Update 2017/02/08:

Update 2017/02/20:

Bird life - Knysna Turacos (Loeries)

There's a pair of them that's been squawking at each other in the early hours (05h30 until about 08h30) over this past ten days or so. They perch at the very top of the Jacaranda trees. The other morning I heard another simultaneous set of squawks from further down the valley - towards Lansdowne Road and the bowling club - so it's quite an invasion.

They're large and quite noisy birds, but hop around very nimbly along and between the branches.

While I've seen Turacos a few times near town, including the grey variety, it's the first time we've had such birds actually in or near our garden, in maybe 30+ odd years of living here. I'm not sure what's attracting them - there's no obvious fruit available other than some still very green figs.

Update 2017/02/07:

Haven't heard them for a week or so... and the first fig has just ripened, untouched by birds.

Cape White fig tree [Blanche or White Marseilles]

Yet another addition to the forest of figs in pots. A nice healthy specimen of a Cape White fig..

Properly known elsewhere as a Marseillaise. Or "testicles of the pope"!

Recommended for growing in pots and for drying.

Update 2017/01/16:

Description from "The Fig" by Ira Condit (1947):

"Marseilles (White Marseilles, Lemon). Marseilles is probably of French origin. It is illustrated in color by Brookshaw (1812) from fruit grown in the garden of the Episcopal Palace at Lambeth, England. In England the tree grows well in pots or as an outdoor standard and bears both a first and second crop. The following three varieties were included in the Chiswick collection and proved to be identical to Marseilles: Figuier Blanche No. 18904, Vigassotte Bianco No. 18864, and Quarteria No. 18866. It is of no commercial value in California.

Breba crop small; figs medium, turbinate with short, thick neck and short stalk; eye medium, open; flecks small, green; color yellowish green; pulp white; seeds large, conspicuous. Figs of second crop much the same as brebas; spherical to oblate, without neck; stalk slender up to Y* inch long; quality fair."

Update 2017/01/19:

Moved to a 45cm pot. The smaller pot went to the Black Toulouse.

Update 2017/02/07:

Looks like a mystery has been solved. We've had a fig tree in the garden for 25 years or so. It used to bear reasonably well, then got crowded out by a pecan tree and a mulberry, plus fence and compost heap and gate.

For whatever reason, this year it's producing, and given my recent enthusiasm for figs, it's going to be subject to "renovation". There's some accessible fruit, and today I noticed one ripe fig:

From what I can make out, it's a Cape White. So...

Update 2017/05/29:

No, it's not. The shape and colour of the fig, and the shape of the leaf make this a Calimyrna of some sort. Which explains why it was able to generate a seedling?

This is getting quite interesting....

Avignon fig tree [Dauphine?]

The latest addition to the fig trees in pots orchard, labelled Avignon fig.. A bit thin and spindly, but healthy.

Green and purple fruit. This is my first "complicated" fig, a San Pedro type that  requires caprification for the main crop.

Proper name for this everywhere else is Dauphine.

Update 2017/01/16:

Description from "The Fig" by Ira Condit (1947):

"Dauphine (Ronde Violette Hative, Adam, Pagaudiere). The Dauphine is commonly grown at Argenteuil near Paris for the fresh fruit market. It came to California in the Chiswick collection as P. I. No. 18912 but has not been planted commercially.

Breba crop good; figs medium to large, broadly turbinate, with short, thick neck and short stalk; eye large, open; surface glossy with pruinose bloom; color violet-purple; meat thick; pulp strawberry; quality good. Second-crop figs medium, oblate, mostly without neck, similar to brebas in other characters; quality fair to poor."

Update 2017/01/20:

Moved (point of being in a pot) and strapped to a stake to improve its posture: