Bethel Grove Gardens · Variety reference
Dauphine
Biological type: San Pedro (often)
Pollination: Unknown
Cutting reference$13.00
One-gallon reference$40.00
Reference estimates, not sale offers or mature-tree appraisals. Price evidence date not recorded.
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Fruit & growing traits
- Biological type
- San Pedro (often)
- Crop habit
- Breba important
- Main crop ripening
- Average
- Flavor profile
- Honey
- Fruit size
- Large
- Skin color
- Violet
- Pulp color
- Amber-red
- Hardiness / climate notes
- San Pedro: brebas set without wasp; main crop usually needs caprification. Heat-loving.
Reported growth habit: Unknown
Origins & names
- Geographic origin
- France
- Possible origin
- France
- Synonyms / alternate names
- Violette Dauphine; Adam (disputed); Adam; Dauphine Violette; Grosse Violette; Mussega Negra; Pagaudière; Ronde Violette Hâtive; Rouge de Argenteuil; Superba; Boule d’Or; Bouton d’Or; Grosse de Juillet
- Same or nearly the same
- French sources synonymize Adam; Figaholics says leaves distinct.
- Popular close brother
- Unknown / not recorded
- Known parentage
- Traditional
- Reference year
- 1955
- First year (estimate)
- Unknown seedling year; documented 1955 (Condit)
- What the year means
- Listed as a described variety in Condit, Fig Varieties: A Monograph (Hilgardia 23:11, 1955). Most are older landraces; 1955 is documentation date, not origin date.
Evidence & reference values
- Confidence
- Historic French cultivar
- Key sources
- Condit San Pedro list; Figaholics
- Condit page
- 365
- Notes
- Condit type symbol Sp; described under this name or cross-referenced in the 1955 monograph. | Price: Fig Boss VdS 3-cut $40; OGW VdB-class
- Commonality
- Super common
- Market availability
- Garden center
Imported catalog record; not individually reviewed. Separate names do not necessarily establish distinct genotypes.