Bethel Grove Gardens · Variety reference
Malta Black
Biological type: Common (persistent)
Pollination: Unknown
Cutting reference$15.00
One-gallon reference$60.00
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
- Early
- Flavor profile
- Berry
- Fruit size
- Small
- Skin color
- Black
- Pulp color
- Red
- Hardiness / climate notes
- Often hardy
Reported growth habit: Unknown
Origins & names
- Geographic origin
- Name points to Malta or Chicago Italian figs
- Possible origin
- Malta
- Synonyms / alternate names
- See Mt. Etna / Chicago Hardy
- Same or nearly the same
- Used both for Etna-types and unrelated Maltese darks.
- Popular close brother
- Unknown / not recorded
- Known parentage
- Uncertain — homonym
- Reference year
- 1920
- First year (estimate)
- S. Italian village figs; Chicago immigrant gardens 20th c.
- What the year means
- Family of old Italian clones. 'Chicago Hardy' names a US immigrant source, not the original seedling year.
Evidence & reference values
- Confidence
- Homonym
- Key sources
- Figarnia; FigBoss
- Condit page
- Unknown / not recorded
- Notes
- Unknown / not recorded
- Commonality
- Average
- Market availability
- FigBid regular
Imported catalog record; not individually reviewed. Separate names do not necessarily establish distinct genotypes.