Bethel Grove Gardens · Variety reference
White Marseilles
Biological type: Common (persistent)
Pollination: Unknown
Cutting reference$8.00
One-gallon reference$31.00
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 in good climates
- Main crop ripening
- Average
- Flavor profile
- Honey
- Fruit size
- Small–medium
- Skin color
- Pale green-yellow
- Pulp color
- Amber / white
- Hardiness / climate notes
- Historic English greenhouse and CA garden fig
Reported growth habit: Unknown
Origins & names
- Geographic origin
- France (Marseille / Argenteuil)
- Possible origin
- France
- Synonyms / alternate names
- Blanche; Blanche d'Argenteuil; Lemon; Marseilles; Mayes Yellow; White Russian (some lists); → Genoa
- Same or nearly the same
- Lattarula / Peter's Honey / Kadota are flavor neighbors. Figarnia maps Blanche d'Argenteuil = Blanche, Lemon, White Marseilles.
- Popular close brother
- Unknown / not recorded
- Known parentage
- Traditional
- Reference year
- 1600
- First year (estimate)
- French Argenteuil/Marseille type; described by 17th–18th c. authors
- What the year means
- Condit cites early French pomologists. Seedling year unknown.
Evidence & reference values
- Confidence
- Established; name applied loosely
- Key sources
- Condit; ANR-1145; Figarnia; ChicagoFigs
- Condit page
- Unknown / not recorded
- Notes
- Price: Raintree Lattarula $31; OGW $25
- Commonality
- Common
- Market availability
- Garden center
Imported catalog record; not individually reviewed. Separate names do not necessarily establish distinct genotypes.