Bethel Grove Gardens · Variety reference
LSU Improved Celeste
Biological type: Common (persistent)
Pollination: Unknown
Cutting reference$8.00
One-gallon reference$35.00
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
- Multiple flushes in long seasons
- Main crop ripening
- Super early
- Flavor profile
- Sugar
- Fruit size
- Small–medium
- Skin color
- Brown-violet
- Pulp color
- Amber
- Hardiness / climate notes
- Celeste-like humidity resistance
Reported growth habit: Unknown
Origins & names
- Geographic origin
- LSU pool / collector selections
- Possible origin
- USA (Louisiana)
- Synonyms / alternate names
- Improved Celeste; ICON (different circulating clone)
- Same or nearly the same
- Several clones share this name. Official improved Celeste is O'Rourke.
- Popular close brother
- LSU O'Rourke
- Known parentage
- Celeste × C1 descendants
- Reference year
- 1958
- First year (estimate)
- 1950s LSU numbered seedlings; named later in trade
- What the year means
- Attributed LSU selections. Not all were formally registered. Seed year is the 1950s program; names attached decades later.
Evidence & reference values
- Confidence
- Name is ambiguous — keep source
- Key sources
- FigBoss; GrowingFruit; ChicagoFigs
- 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.