Bethel Grove Gardens · Variety reference
Kurume
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.
No verified photograph yet
Fruit & growing traits
- Biological type
- Common (persistent)
- Crop habit
- Unifera (main crop)
- Main crop ripening
- Average
- Flavor profile
- Berry
- Fruit size
- Large (80–120 g in Chinese reports)
- Skin color
- Black
- Pulp color
- Red
- Hardiness / climate notes
- Unknown / not recorded
Reported growth habit: Unknown
Origins & names
- Geographic origin
- Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan
- Possible origin
- Japan
- Synonyms / alternate names
- Kurume fig; 久留米
- Same or nearly the same
- Unknown / not recorded
- Popular close brother
- Unknown / not recorded
- Known parentage
- Unknown / not recorded
- Reference year
- 1950
- First year (estimate)
- Japanese regional
- What the year means
- First named or first widely circulated
Evidence & reference values
- Confidence
- Medium — nursery / forum / regional commercial sources
- Key sources
- OurFigs China thread
- Condit page
- Unknown / not recorded
- Notes
- Japanese black that Chinese collectors like for size + earliness.
- Commonality
- Rare
- Market availability
- FigBid scarce
Imported catalog record; not individually reviewed. Separate names do not necessarily establish distinct genotypes.