Bethel Grove Gardens · Variety reference
Osborne Prolific
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
- Main crop ripening
- Average
- Flavor profile
- Sugar-Berry
- Fruit size
- Medium–large
- Skin color
- Brown-violet
- Pulp color
- Amber to light strawberry
- Hardiness / climate notes
- Coastal CA classic; less loved in humid heat
Reported growth habit: Unknown
Origins & names
- Geographic origin
- England / CA trade
- Possible origin
- Italy
- Synonyms / alternate names
- Osborne; Aylsbury; Godfather (one marketed strain)
- Same or nearly the same
- Godfather sold as richer Osborne-like fig.
- Popular close brother
- Unknown / not recorded
- Known parentage
- Traditional
- Reference year
- 1890
- First year (estimate)
- English/CA trade fig late 19th–early 20th c.
- What the year means
- Named in English nursery trade. Seedling year uncertain.
Evidence & reference values
- Confidence
- Established
- Key sources
- Condit; ChicagoFigs; FigBoss
- Condit page
- Unknown / not recorded
- Notes
- 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.