Bethel Grove Gardens · Variety reference
Black Mission Tusquittee
Biological type: Common (persistent)
Pollination: Unknown
Cutting reference$12.00
One-gallon reference$45.00
Reference estimates, not sale offers or mature-tree appraisals. Price evidence date not recorded.
No verified photograph yet
Fruit & growing traits
- Biological type
- Common (persistent)
- Crop habit
- Bifera (breba + main)
- Main crop ripening
- Average
- Flavor profile
- Sugar-Berry
- Fruit size
- Medium
- Skin color
- Black / dark purple
- Pulp color
- Strawberry red
- Hardiness / climate notes
- Mountain NC zone 7 talk; treated as a bit hardier than CA Mission
Reported growth habit: Unknown
Origins & names
- Geographic origin
- Tusquittee, Clay County, North Carolina — local Mission-type tree
- Possible origin
- USA
- Synonyms / alternate names
- Tusquittee Black Mission; Tusquittee Mission
- Same or nearly the same
- Black Mission-family selection until proven otherwise
- Popular close brother
- Black Mission
- Known parentage
- Likely Black Mission (Albacor) selection or seedling
- Reference year
- 2005
- First year (estimate)
- Named as a local NC find, 2000s
- What the year means
- First named or first widely circulated
Evidence & reference values
- Confidence
- Medium — nursery / forum / regional commercial sources
- Key sources
- Collector lists; Black Mission family threads (OurFigs / FigBoss)
- Condit page
- Unknown / not recorded
- Notes
- Place-name Mission cut from Tusquittee NC. Not a new flavor class unless DNA says so.
- Commonality
- Rare
- Market availability
- FigBid scarce
Preserved earlier research
These earlier notes have not been reconciled with every catalog field. Edit the full description to replace this section with a current account.
Condit traces Mission/Franciscana to Spain and discusses an earlier Spain-or-Portugal account. Applying that history to the Tusquittee accession depends on confirming its identity.
Preserved earlier research. The updated workbook fields above may differ; consult the cited sources when reports conflict.
This is a collection record based on the existing nursery catalog. Independent research and a complete historical review are still pending.