Bethel Grove Gardens · Variety reference
Calimyrna
Biological type: Smyrna (needs wasp)
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.
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Fruit & growing traits
- Biological type
- Smyrna (needs wasp)
- Crop habit
- Main only if caprified
- Main crop ripening
- Late
- Flavor profile
- Honey
- Fruit size
- Large
- Skin color
- Green-yellow to golden
- Pulp color
- Amber, nutty seeds
- Hardiness / climate notes
- CA Central Valley commercial; not a wasp-free backyard fig
Reported growth habit: Unknown
Origins & names
- Geographic origin
- Aydın, Turkey
- Possible origin
- Turkey
- Synonyms / alternate names
- Sari Lop; Lob Injir; Aidin
- Same or nearly the same
- Other yellow Smyrnas are not interchangeable.
- Popular close brother
- Unknown / not recorded
- Known parentage
- Traditional Turkish Smyrna
- Reference year
- 1886
- First year (estimate)
- Turkish landrace; CA as Calimyrna 1880s–1900s
- What the year means
- Sari Lop is an old Aydın (Smyrna) dried fig. George Roeding / USDA popularized it in CA after 1880s caprification work; trade name Calimyrna = California + Smyrna.
Evidence & reference values
- Confidence
- Established
- Key sources
- Condit; UC dried-fig leaflets
- Condit page
- Unknown / not recorded
- Notes
- Recurrent female in UC Calimyrna-backcross breeding. | 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.