Bethel Grove Gardens · Variety reference
Masui Dauphine
Biological type: San Pedro / Common in Japanese practice
Pollination: Unknown
Cutting reference$8.00
One-gallon reference$32.00
Reference estimates, not sale offers or mature-tree appraisals. Price evidence date not recorded.
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Fruit & growing traits
- Biological type
- San Pedro / Common in Japanese practice
- Crop habit
- Bifera
- Main crop ripening
- Average
- Flavor profile
- Sugar
- Fruit size
- Large
- Skin color
- Purple-brown
- Pulp color
- Strawberry to amber
- Hardiness / climate notes
- Greenhouse and open field; straight-line training common
Reported growth habit: Unknown
Origins & names
- Geographic origin
- Japan — selected by Masui; ~80–98% of Japanese commercial figs
- Possible origin
- Japan
- Synonyms / alternate names
- Masui Dofin; 桝井ドーフィン; Wase Dauphine; Nishimino; Osawano
- Same or nearly the same
- Japanese commercial strain of San Piero / Dauphine; related to US Brown Turkey, not always the same cut
- Popular close brother
- Brown Turkey
- Known parentage
- Dauphine / San Piero lineage selected in Japan
- Reference year
- 1900
- First year (estimate)
- Japanese commercial standard, 20th c.
- What the year means
- First named or first widely circulated
Evidence & reference values
- Confidence
- Medium — nursery / forum / regional commercial sources
- Key sources
- Specialty Produce; Hort. J. Masui/Houraishi; FIG Agro Lab Asia; Fukuoka JA
- Condit page
- Unknown / not recorded
- Notes
- The supermarket fig of Japan. Huge pyriform fruit, two crops under cover.
- Commonality
- Super common
- Market availability
- Garden center
Imported catalog record; not individually reviewed. Separate names do not necessarily establish distinct genotypes.