Bethel Grove Gardens · Variety reference
Violette de Bordeaux
Biological type: Common (persistent)
Pollination: Unknown
Cutting reference$13.00
One-gallon reference$40.00
Reference estimates, not sale offers or mature-tree appraisals. Price evidence date not recorded.
No verified photograph yet
Fruit & growing traits
- Biological type
- Common (persistent)
- Crop habit
- Bifera
- Main crop ripening
- Average
- Flavor profile
- Berry
- Fruit size
- Small–medium
- Skin color
- Dark purple-black
- Pulp color
- Deep red
- Hardiness / climate notes
- Great container fig; zone 7 in-ground still debated
Reported growth habit: Unknown
Origins & names
- Geographic origin
- Bordeaux / SW France
- Possible origin
- France
- Synonyms / alternate names
- Negronne; Beer's Black; Petite Negri / Petit Négra (compact); → Bordeaux
- Same or nearly the same
- SSR studies cited by FigBoss treat Beer's Black as synonym. Little Miss Figgy claimed as patented dwarf sport.
- Popular close brother
- Unknown / not recorded
- Known parentage
- Traditional French landrace
- Reference year
- 1600
- First year (estimate)
- SW French landrace; early pomological descriptions
- What the year means
- Traditional Bordeaux/Negronne. Seedling year unknown.
Evidence & reference values
- Confidence
- Established; synonymy widely accepted
- Key sources
- FigBoss; ChicagoFigs; Condit-era French names
- Condit page
- Unknown / not recorded
- Notes
- excellent (Condit) | Price: Fig Boss VdS 3-cut $40; OGW VdB-class
- Commonality
- Common
- Market availability
- Garden center
Imported catalog record; not individually reviewed. Separate names do not necessarily establish distinct genotypes.