Bethel Grove Gardens · Variety reference
Texas Blue Giant
Biological type: Common (persistent)
Pollination: Unknown
Cutting reference$12.00
One-gallon reference$40.00
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 / everbearing claims
- Main crop ripening
- Average
- Flavor profile
- Sugar
- Fruit size
- Large (when true to type)
- Skin color
- Purple / blue-purple
- Pulp color
- Amber to pink
- Hardiness / climate notes
- DWN zones 6–10; Texas AgriLife: less hardy than Celeste, fine south and coastal TX
Reported growth habit: Unknown
Origins & names
- Geographic origin
- Eddie Fanick, San Antonio; Dave Wilson lists it. Claimed Cyprus Vazanata/Maxiles source.
- Possible origin
- USA
- Synonyms / alternate names
- Blue Giant; Fanick Texas Blue Giant; Vazanata?; Maxiles?
- Same or nearly the same
- Some circulating US wood is a Blue Celeste, not the giant Cyprus type — verify
- Popular close brother
- Celeste
- Known parentage
- Claimed Cyprus Vazanata/Maxiles; some US lots may be Celeste-type
- Reference year
- 1985
- First year (estimate)
- Fanick Nursery introduction, late 20th c.
- What the year means
- First named or first widely circulated
Evidence & reference values
- Confidence
- Medium — nursery / forum / regional commercial sources
- Key sources
- Dave Wilson; Texas AgriLife fig sheet; Otto & Sons; FigBoss Blue Celeste video
- Condit page
- Unknown / not recorded
- Notes
- True Fanick type: extra-large purple, amber flesh, closed eye, mild-sweet, everbearing in long TX summers.
- Commonality
- Average
- Market availability
- Garden center
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.
Fanick’s own history lists Fan-Blue Giant among Eddie Fanick’s introductions. The Texas Blue Giant collection label is associated with that introduction; the accession chain still needs confirmation.
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.