Bethel Grove Gardens · Variety reference
Marabout
Biological type: Smyrna (needs caprification)
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.
No verified photograph yet
Fruit & growing traits
- Biological type
- Smyrna (needs caprification)
- Crop habit
- Main if pollinated
- Main crop ripening
- Average
- Flavor profile
- Berry
- Fruit size
- Large
- Skin color
- Dark
- Pulp color
- Red-amber
- Hardiness / climate notes
- Dry Mediterranean
Reported growth habit: Unknown
Origins & names
- Geographic origin
- Morocco / N. Africa
- Possible origin
- Morocco
- Synonyms / alternate names
- Aseltani; Sultane du Marabout; Sultane; Taboukal; Thaboukal
- Same or nearly the same
- Unknown / not recorded
- Popular close brother
- Unknown / not recorded
- Known parentage
- Traditional Smyrna-type
- Reference year
- 0
- First year (estimate)
- Unknown
- What the year means
- No published seedling or introduction year found. Most figs are unnamed chance seedlings later given a local name.
Evidence & reference values
- Confidence
- Condit-classified Smyrna example
- Key sources
- Condit; Wikipedia; Figarnia
- Condit page
- Unknown / not recorded
- Notes
- very good (Condit)
- Commonality
- Average
- Market availability
- FigBid regular
Imported catalog record; not individually reviewed. Separate names do not necessarily establish distinct genotypes.