Bethel Grove Gardens · Variety reference
Paradiso
Biological type: Common (persistent)
Pollination: Unknown
Cutting reference$17.00
One-gallon reference$75.00
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
- Varies
- Main crop ripening
- Late
- Flavor profile
- Honey-Berry
- Fruit size
- Medium
- Skin color
- Green or bronze
- Pulp color
- Strawberry or other
- Hardiness / climate notes
- Mediterranean common fig. In-ground roughly USDA 7–10; late/heat-loving types (Col de Dame, Black Madeira class) need a long warm season.
Reported growth habit: Unknown
Origins & names
- Geographic origin
- Italy (multiple)
- Possible origin
- Italy
- Synonyms / alternate names
- Paradiso (Gene); Paradiso Bronze (VS) ≈ Adriatic; Paradiso (Baud) and Paradiso (Siro) ≠ Adriatic; Albero d’Oro; Ficus carica bifera; Paraíso
- Same or nearly the same
- ≥3 different plants.
- Popular close brother
- Unknown / not recorded
- Known parentage
- Depends on strain
- Reference year
- 1955
- First year (estimate)
- Unknown seedling year; documented 1955 (Condit)
- What the year means
- Listed as a described variety in Condit, Fig Varieties: A Monograph (Hilgardia 23:11, 1955). Most are older landraces; 1955 is documentation date, not origin date.
Evidence & reference values
- Confidence
- Dangerous homonym — keep source tag
- Key sources
- FigBoss Adriatic review
- Condit page
- 455
- Notes
- Condit type symbol C; described under this name or cross-referenced in the 1955 monograph. | Price: Fig Boss Paradiso 3-cut $50; trees $75
- Commonality
- Average
- Market availability
- FigBid scarce
Imported catalog record; not individually reviewed. Separate names do not necessarily establish distinct genotypes.