Bethel Grove Gardens · Variety reference
Ischia Black
Biological type: Common (persistent)
Pollination: Unknown
Cutting reference$10.00
One-gallon reference$35.00
Reference estimates, not sale offers or mature-tree appraisals. Price evidence date not recorded.
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Fruit & growing traits
- Biological type
- Common (persistent)
- Crop habit
- Main
- Main crop ripening
- Average
- Flavor profile
- Berry
- Fruit size
- Small–medium
- Skin color
- Black-purple
- Pulp color
- Strawberry
- 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
- Ischia, Italy
- Possible origin
- Italy
- Synonyms / alternate names
- Ischia Black (USDA); Black Ischia; Blue Ischia; Early Forcing; Nero
- Same or nearly the same
- USDA accession is the collector strain.
- Popular close brother
- Unknown / not recorded
- Known parentage
- Traditional
- Reference year
- 1700
- First year (estimate)
- Ischia island landraces; English greenhouse lists by 18th–19th c.
- What the year means
- Traditional. Seedling year unknown.
Evidence & reference values
- Confidence
- USDA accession + historic name
- Key sources
- ChicagoFigs; FigBoss; Condit
- Condit page
- Unknown / not recorded
- Notes
- Unknown / not recorded
- Commonality
- Common
- Market availability
- Garden center
Imported catalog record; not individually reviewed. Separate names do not necessarily establish distinct genotypes.