Bethel Grove Gardens · Variety reference
LSU Tiger
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
- Main; ~7 days before Celeste in LSU trials
- Main crop ripening
- Early
- Flavor profile
- Sugar-Berry
- Fruit size
- Large (30–50% > Celeste)
- Skin color
- Yellow-green; immature stripe
- Pulp color
- Amber-pink
- Hardiness / climate notes
- Good cold tolerance; small-moderate tree
Reported growth habit: Unknown
Origins & names
- Geographic origin
- LSU released 2007
- Possible origin
- USA (Louisiana)
- Synonyms / alternate names
- LSU Giant Celeste; L57-13-121
- Same or nearly the same
- Not Panache Tiger Stripe.
- Popular close brother
- Unknown / not recorded
- Known parentage
- Celeste × C1; cross 1957
- Reference year
- 1957
- First year (estimate)
- Cross 1957; released 2007
- What the year means
- Celeste × C1. Selection L57-13-121.
Evidence & reference values
- Confidence
- Official release with published parentage
- Key sources
- LSU 2007 PDF; ChicagoFigs
- Condit page
- Unknown / not recorded
- Notes
- Juvenile horizontal growth; sometimes unlobed leaves. | Price: Fig Boss Celeste-class; LSU mail-order 1-gal ~$30–40
- Commonality
- Common
- Market availability
- Garden center
Imported catalog record; not individually reviewed. Separate names do not necessarily establish distinct genotypes.