Bethel Grove Gardens · Variety reference
Saint Jean
Biological type: Common (persistent)
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.
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Fruit & growing traits
- Biological type
- Common (persistent)
- Crop habit
- See Condit 1955
- Main crop ripening
- Early
- Flavor profile
- Honey
- Fruit size
- Small–medium
- Skin color
- Unknown / not recorded
- Pulp color
- Unknown / not recorded
- Hardiness / climate notes
- Common fig (parthenocarpic). Typical home-orchard range about USDA 7–10; winter-protect in colder zones. Confirm with a living source in your climate.
Reported growth habit: Unknown
Origins & names
- Geographic origin
- Documented in Condit 1955 (often Mediterranean / N. Africa / CA intro)
- Possible origin
- France
- Synonyms / alternate names
- Grosse Grisé’; Grosse Grisé Bifère; Grisé; Grisé de Saint Jean; Grisé Madeleine; Grisé Savantine Bifère; → Brunswick; Saint Jean Gris; Cotignana
- Same or nearly the same
- Unknown / not recorded
- Popular close brother
- Unknown / not recorded
- Known parentage
- Unknown / traditional (Condit monograph entry)
- Reference year
- 1700
- First year (estimate)
- Pre-1800 English/Mediterranean garden fig
- What the year means
- Long English and Southern US history. TX Magnolia is the same complex. Seedling year unknown.
Evidence & reference values
- Confidence
- Established in Condit 1955 index
- Key sources
- Condit 1955 alphabetical list p. 465
- Condit page
- 465
- Notes
- Condit type symbol C; described under this name or cross-referenced in the 1955 monograph.
- Commonality
- Average
- Market availability
- FigBid regular
Imported catalog record; not individually reviewed. Separate names do not necessarily establish distinct genotypes.