Bethel Grove Gardens · Variety reference
Pingo de Mel
Biological type: Common (persistent)
Pollination: Unknown
Cutting reference$18.00
One-gallon reference$55.00
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
- Average
- Flavor profile
- Honey
- Fruit size
- Small–medium
- Skin color
- Yellow-green
- Pulp color
- Amber
- 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
- Portugal / Madeira
- Possible origin
- Portugal (Madeira)
- Synonyms / alternate names
- Pingo de Mel da Madeira; → Croisic; → Moscatel Branco
- Same or nearly the same
- Portuguese honey fig; name used for more than one light fig.
- Popular close brother
- Unknown / not recorded
- Known parentage
- Traditional
- Reference year
- 1942
- First year (estimate)
- Identified at Cordelia, CA, 1942 (French caprifig type)
- What the year means
- Condit recognized this persistent edible caprifig in 1942. The French name Croisic is older.
Evidence & reference values
- Confidence
- Popular name, possible homonyms
- Key sources
- Figaholics sellouts
- Condit page
- Unknown / not recorded
- Notes
- Unknown / not recorded
- Commonality
- Super rare
- Market availability
- Estimate only
Imported catalog record; not individually reviewed. Separate names do not necessarily establish distinct genotypes.