Bethel Grove Gardens · Variety reference
Kurume Honey Drop
Biological type: Common (persistent)
Pollination: Unknown
Cutting reference$22.00
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 (main crop)
- Main crop ripening
- Average
- Flavor profile
- Honey
- Fruit size
- Medium
- Skin color
- Purple-brown (early descriptions said green)
- Pulp color
- Amber-red
- Hardiness / climate notes
- Unknown / not recorded
Reported growth habit: Unknown
Origins & names
- Geographic origin
- Kurume, Fukuoka — S-Plan release
- Possible origin
- Japan
- Synonyms / alternate names
- 久留米ハニードロップ; S-Plan Honey Drop
- Same or nearly the same
- Fourth official Kurume release; registration lagged the first three
- Popular close brother
- Unknown / not recorded
- Known parentage
- Kurume breeding program
- Reference year
- 2015
- First year (estimate)
- Promoted after the three registered Kurumes
- What the year means
- Official release or first wide circulation
Evidence & reference values
- Confidence
- Medium — breeder notes / national commercial lists / collector forums
- Key sources
- OurFigs / Fig Fanatic Kurume series; shuiguobang
- Condit page
- Unknown / not recorded
- Notes
- Still scarce outside Japan. Skin color descriptions have shifted from green to purple-brown.
- Commonality
- Super rare
- Market availability
- FigBid scarce
Imported catalog record; not individually reviewed. Separate names do not necessarily establish distinct genotypes.