Bethel Grove Gardens · Variety reference
Fort Mill Black
Biological type: Common
Pollination: Unknown
Cutting reference$15.00
One-gallon reference$46.00
Reference estimates, not sale offers or mature-tree appraisals. Price evidence date not recorded.
No verified photograph yet
Fruit & growing traits
- Biological type
- Common
- Crop habit
- Bifera (brebas reported)
- Main crop ripening
- Early
- Flavor profile
- Berry
- Fruit size
- Small–medium
- Skin color
- Black / dark Bordeaux
- Pulp color
- Red
- Hardiness / climate notes
- Southeastern US common fig; about USDA 7–9
Reported growth habit: Unknown
Origins & names
- Geographic origin
- Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA (yard/park find)
- Possible origin
- USA (Southeast)
- Synonyms / alternate names
- Fort Mill Dark; Fort Mill Park Fig
- Same or nearly the same
- Bordeaux / VdB-class dark fig (local SC find; not verified identical)
- Popular close brother
- Unknown / not recorded
- Known parentage
- Unknown local tree; Bordeaux-type dark fig
- Reference year
- 2000
- First year (estimate)
- Local tree; documented by collectors ~2010s–2020s
- What the year means
- Find / first collector documentation, not a known seedling year
Evidence & reference values
- Confidence
- Medium — living but scarce; name varies (Black / Dark / Park)
- Key sources
- OurFigs; FigBid listings; GrowingFruit Fort Mill Dark notes
- Condit page
- Unknown / not recorded
- Notes
- South Carolina local find. Growers compare it to VdB / Valle Negra class. Not a big-box plant. FigBid #45215338 Fort Mill Dark rooted cutting sold $46; another rooted/airlayer sold $25; airlayer ask ~$70. 1-gal estimate tracks that sold rooted price, not a hyped-SO list price.
- Commonality
- Rare
- Market availability
- FigBid scarce
Imported catalog record; not individually reviewed. Separate names do not necessarily establish distinct genotypes.