Bethel Grove Gardens · Variety reference
Adriatic
Biological type: Common (persistent)
Pollination: Unknown
Cutting reference$6.00
One-gallon reference$28.00
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
- Main; some strains breba
- Main crop ripening
- Average
- Flavor profile
- Berry
- Fruit size
- Medium
- Skin color
- Green to yellow-green
- Pulp color
- Strawberry / pink-red
- Hardiness / climate notes
- Widely adapted; wants heat
Reported growth habit: Unknown
Origins & names
- Geographic origin
- Adriatic basin / Italy; early CA commercial
- Possible origin
- Italy
- Synonyms / alternate names
- White Adriatic; Verdone; Grosse Verte; Ventura; Nebian; Italian Strawberry
- Same or nearly the same
- Family (not one clone): JH Adriatic, Strawberry Verte, Green Ischia, Battaglia Green, SMGG, Verte, Texas Strawberry, green Vasilika Sika, Prosciutto Unk. White Madeira #1 often best eater. Exclude Ponte Tresa and some Paradiso strains.
- Popular close brother
- Unknown / not recorded
- Known parentage
- Traditional landrace; parent of UC hybrids
- Reference year
- 1880
- First year (estimate)
- Old Adriatic-basin landrace; CA commercial by late 1800s
- What the year means
- Italian Verdone type. Seedling year unknown. Major CA commercial fig by the late 19th c.
Evidence & reference values
- Confidence
- Established name; modern strains are a family
- Key sources
- Condit; FigBoss Adriatic review; ChicagoFigs; Figgipedia
- Condit page
- Unknown / not recorded
- Notes
- Parent of Conadria, Flanders, DiRedo. | Price: HD/big-box Kadota / commercial dry fig
- Commonality
- Super common
- Market availability
- Big box
Imported catalog record; not individually reviewed. Separate names do not necessarily establish distinct genotypes.