Bethel Grove Gardens · Variety reference
Purple Rain
Biological type: Caprifig
Pollination: Unknown
Reference estimates, not sale offers or mature-tree appraisals. Price evidence date not recorded.
Fruit & growing traits
- Biological type
- Caprifig
- Crop habit
- Caprifig (pollenizer)
- Main crop ripening
- Average
- Flavor profile
- Honey
- Fruit size
- Unknown / not recorded
- Skin color
- Unknown / not recorded
- Pulp color
- Unknown / not recorded
- Hardiness / climate notes
- Caprifig; climate range not established
Reported growth habit: Unknown
Origins & names
- Geographic origin
- USA — Sacred Origin introduction
- Possible origin
- USA
- Synonyms / alternate names
- Sacred Origin Purple Rain
- Same or nearly the same
- Unknown / not recorded
- Popular close brother
- Unknown / not recorded
- Known parentage
- Male caprifig introduction; seedling/find year unpublished
- Reference year
- 2020
- First year (estimate)
- c. 2020s Sacred Origin introduction
- What the year means
- First circulated from the introducer
Evidence & reference values
- Confidence
- Low–medium — FigBid listing exists; few trees
- Key sources
- FigBid (Sacred Origin Purple Rain caprifig listing)
- Condit page
- Unknown / not recorded
- Notes
- Scarce modern caprifig name in the US collector trade. Distinct from any ornamental 'Purple Rain' non-carica plants. | Price: Collector scarce, not SO-list tier
- Commonality
- Rare
- Market availability
- FigBid scarce
Preserved earlier research
These earlier notes have not been reconciled with every catalog field. Edit the full description to replace this section with a current account.
Sacred Origin describes this as a discovered caprifig but does not establish its precise birthplace in the reviewed listing. The listing offers Purple Rain and Bodhisattva as separate choices, not synonyms.
Preserved earlier research. The updated workbook fields above may differ; consult the cited sources when reports conflict.
