Bethel Grove Gardens · Variety reference
Sari Lop
Biological type: Smyrna (needs wasp)
Pollination: Unknown
Cutting reference$6.00
One-gallon reference$28.00
Reference estimates, not sale offers or mature-tree appraisals. Price evidence date not recorded.
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Fruit & growing traits
- Biological type
- Smyrna (needs wasp)
- Crop habit
- Main if caprified
- Main crop ripening
- Late
- Flavor profile
- Honey
- Fruit size
- Medium–large
- Skin color
- Green-yellow to golden
- Pulp color
- Amber, nutty seeds
- Hardiness / climate notes
- CA Central Valley commercial; not a wasp-free backyard fig
Reported growth habit: Unknown
Origins & names
- Geographic origin
- Documented in Condit 1955 (often Mediterranean / N. Africa / CA intro)
- Possible origin
- Turkey
- Synonyms / alternate names
- Aidin; Calimyrna; Erbeyli; Esmirna; Yel Injur
- Same or nearly the same
- Unknown / not recorded
- Popular close brother
- Calimyrna
- Known parentage
- Unknown / traditional (Condit monograph entry)
- Reference year
- 1886
- First year (estimate)
- Turkish landrace; CA as Calimyrna 1880s–1900s
- What the year means
- Sari Lop is an old Aydın (Smyrna) dried fig. George Roeding / USDA popularized it in CA after 1880s caprification work; trade name Calimyrna = California + Smyrna.
Evidence & reference values
- Confidence
- Established in Condit 1955 index
- Key sources
- Condit 1955 alphabetical list p. 343; MountainFigs/ChicagoFigs/OurFigs flavor notes
- Condit page
- 343
- Notes
- Condit type symbol S; described under this name or cross-referenced in the 1955 monograph.
- Commonality
- Super common
- Market availability
- Big box
Imported catalog record; not individually reviewed. Separate names do not necessarily establish distinct genotypes.