Bethel Grove Gardens · Variety reference
Black Celeste
Biological type: Common (persistent)
Pollination: Unknown
Cutting reference$33.00
One-gallon reference$100.00
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
- Main crop ripening
- Early
- Flavor profile
- Sugar-Berry
- Fruit size
- Small–medium
- Skin color
- Dark reddish-violet to black
- Pulp color
- Redder than Celeste
- Hardiness / climate notes
- Celeste-like humidity toughness
Reported growth habit: Unknown
Origins & names
- Geographic origin
- USA collector sport of Celeste
- Possible origin
- USA (Southeast)
- Synonyms / alternate names
- Unknown / not recorded
- Same or nearly the same
- Treated as sport/relative of Celeste, not a seedling like LSU set.
- Popular close brother
- Unknown / not recorded
- Known parentage
- Putative somatic sport of Celeste
- Reference year
- 1995
- First year (estimate)
- Late-20th-c. collector sport of Celeste
- What the year means
- Somatic color/flavor change, not a 1950s LSU seedling.
Evidence & reference values
- Confidence
- Collector consensus (sport)
- Key sources
- FigBoss; ChicagoFigs; OurFigs
- Condit page
- Unknown / not recorded
- Notes
- Price: Fig Boss Black Celeste 3-cut $100
- Commonality
- Average
- Market availability
- FigBid scarce
Imported catalog record; not individually reviewed. Separate names do not necessarily establish distinct genotypes.