Bethel Grove Gardens · Variety reference
Sultane
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
- Bifera possible
- Main crop ripening
- Average
- Flavor profile
- Berry
- Fruit size
- Medium
- Skin color
- Dark
- Pulp color
- Red
- 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
- France / N. Africa name
- Possible origin
- France
- Synonyms / alternate names
- Bellone bifère (misapplied); Grosse de Juillet; Noire de Juillet; → Marabout
- Same or nearly the same
- Confused with Bellone. Name used widely.
- Popular close brother
- Unknown / not recorded
- Known parentage
- Traditional
- 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
- Name applied to more than one plant
- Key sources
- Figaholics; ChicagoFigs
- Condit page
- 472
- Notes
- Condit type symbol C; described under this name or cross-referenced in the 1955 monograph.; good quality (Condit)
- Commonality
- Average
- Market availability
- FigBid regular
Imported catalog record; not individually reviewed. Separate names do not necessarily establish distinct genotypes.