Bethel Grove Gardens · Variety reference
Cavaliere
Biological type: Common (persistent)
Pollination: Unknown
Cutting reference$15.00
One-gallon reference$60.00
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 Aug–Sep
- Main crop ripening
- Average
- Flavor profile
- Berry
- Fruit size
- Medium, pyriform
- Skin color
- Black
- Pulp color
- Red
- Hardiness / climate notes
- Mediterranean common fig. In-ground roughly USDA 7–10; late/heat-loving types (Col de Dame, Black Madeira class) need a long warm season.
Reported growth habit: Unknown
Origins & names
- Geographic origin
- Italy
- Possible origin
- Italy
- Synonyms / alternate names
- Corso; Turco
- Same or nearly the same
- Similar to Brogiotto Nero per Figaholics.
- Popular close brother
- Unknown / not recorded
- Known parentage
- Traditional
- Reference year
- 1800
- First year (estimate)
- Italian local landrace; seedling year unknown
- What the year means
- Place-named or dialect Italian fig conserved at Pomona. First seed year almost never recorded; treat as traditional.
Evidence & reference values
- Confidence
- Named Italian
- Key sources
- Figaholics; Figarnia
- Condit page
- Unknown / not recorded
- Notes
- Italian conservation catalog entry. Flavor/size not extracted from individual PDFs in this pass.; needs caprification
- Commonality
- Average
- Market availability
- FigBid regular
Imported catalog record; not individually reviewed. Separate names do not necessarily establish distinct genotypes.