Bethel Grove Gardens · Variety reference
De la Caseta
Biological type: Common (persistent)
Pollination: Unknown
Cutting reference$15.00
One-gallon reference$50.00
Reference estimates, not sale offers or mature-tree appraisals. Price evidence date not recorded.
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Fruit & growing traits
- Biological type
- Common (persistent)
- Crop habit
- Unifera (main crop)
- Main crop ripening
- Early
- Flavor profile
- Sugar-Berry
- Fruit size
- Small–medium (~23–50 g)
- Skin color
- Light green to yellow
- Pulp color
- Dark orange to bright red
- Hardiness / climate notes
- Tight eye, rain-tolerant, dries on the tree — a drying fig
Reported growth habit: Unknown
Origins & names
- Geographic origin
- Pollença (Pollensa), Mallorca — Alicantina group
- Possible origin
- Spain
- Synonyms / alternate names
- Caseta; La Caseta; Pollencina; SMN084IB
- Same or nearly the same
- Catalog stub 'Caseta' is this variety
- Popular close brother
- Unknown / not recorded
- Known parentage
- Unknown / not recorded
- Reference year
- 1900
- First year (estimate)
- Traditional Mallorcan; Pons collection
- What the year means
- First named or first widely circulated
Evidence & reference values
- Confidence
- Medium — nursery / forum / regional commercial sources
- Key sources
- Pons; Spanish Wikipedia De La Caseta; fig7.net; OurFigs 2024
- Condit page
- Unknown / not recorded
- Notes
- Early, productive, holds and dries. Milder than the CDD family.
- 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.
Monserrat Pons identifies Pollença as the origin and records cuttings supplied by Joan Coll.
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.