Bethel Grove Gardens · Variety reference
Colonel Littman's Black Cross
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
- Main
- Main crop ripening
- Average
- Flavor profile
- Berry
- Fruit size
- Medium
- Skin color
- Black
- Pulp color
- Red
- Hardiness / climate notes
- Common fig; most CA/US collector types want summer heat. In-ground roughly USDA 7–10 with winter protection at the cold end.
Reported growth habit: Unknown
Origins & names
- Geographic origin
- USA (Littman)
- Possible origin
- USA
- Synonyms / alternate names
- Unknown / not recorded
- Same or nearly the same
- Amateur named cross; parents not in a formal release paper.
- Popular close brother
- Unknown / not recorded
- Known parentage
- Reported cross; unverified public pedigree
- Reference year
- 0
- First year (estimate)
- Unknown
- What the year means
- No published seedling or introduction year found. Most figs are unnamed chance seedlings later given a local name.
Evidence & reference values
- Confidence
- Named amateur cross
- Key sources
- FigBoss; Figaholics
- Condit page
- Unknown / not recorded
- Notes
- Unknown / not recorded
- Commonality
- Rare
- Market availability
- FigBid scarce
Preserved earlier research
These earlier notes have not been reconciled with every catalog field. Edit the full description to replace this section with a current account.
Grower accounts associate the source tree with Gainesville, Florida, while explicitly leaving its earlier origin unresolved. A Florida collection location is not evidence of where the cultivar first arose.
Preserved earlier research. The updated workbook fields above may differ; consult the cited sources when reports conflict.
This is a collection record based on the existing nursery catalog. Independent research and a complete historical review are still pending.