Brown Turkey

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Brown turkey tree in Shipley, West Sussex, near the English south coast.
Typical leaf from Brown Turkey.
Foliage and unripe fruits of Brown Turkey.
Ripe brown turkey fruit on a tree in Hawaii .
Brown turkey fruit cut open.

Brown Turkey , often also called (blue) Palatinate fruit fig or Bornholm in Germany , is a fig variety of the species Ficus carica that is widespread around the world and is known for its rich yield and great winter hardiness . It is a very common variety, especially in cooler regions, but its taste is surpassed by many other varieties. She is a double-bearing house fig.

Large, fully grown trees of the Brown Turkey variety can bear up to 100 kg of figs in Germany in good years. Of the estimated 80,000 fig trees in the Palatinate , 80 percent are said to be trees of this variety.

Synonyms

Due to the widespread use, regional types have emerged, plus a large number of synonyms: "Blue Palatinate Fruit Fig", "Bornholm", "Albatera", "Ashridge Forcing", "Black Douro", "Brown Naples", "Brown Italian", "Common Blue", "Early Howick", "Eastern Brown Turkey", "English Brown Turkey", "Everbearing", "Harrison", "La Perpétuelle", "Laradek" (La Radek), "Large Blue", "Lee's." Perpetual "," Negro Largo "," Noire de Languedoc "," Perpetual "," Ramsey "," San Piero "," Szilva "," Texas Everbearing "and" Walton ".

The “Californian Brown Turkey” type is much less winter hardy than the standard type.

tree

Brown Turkey has a fast, spreading growth and in Central Europe usually reaches a height of 4–6 m and a width of over 2–4 m. The leaf is three to five-lobed, leaves with three well-developed lobes and two relatively small ones on the stem are typical for the variety. The leaves vary greatly in size. The many flowering figs on a longer shoot, often five to eight, are also typical of Brown Turkey. Most other fig varieties only have one or two, less often three, flowering figs on one shoot.

fruit

The flowering figs of the Brown Turkey variety are golden brown, ripen in June and July and usually weigh between 50 and 100 grams. The autumn figs are much smaller, but more numerous and ripen from September to November. In Central Europe, it is not uncommon for a not inconsiderable part of the fruit to no longer be ripe, especially if the fruit is heavily hung. The autumn figs are more rounded than the flowering figs and purple when fully ripe. They weigh 30 to 40 grams. According to Piere Baud, the fruit is of medium taste quality ("qualité gustative moyenne").

Winter hardiness

Brown Turkey is considered to be one of the hardest fig varieties ever.

See also

literature

  • Christoph Seiler: Figs from your own garden , Verlag Eugen Ulmer , Stuttgart 2016.
  • Pierre Baud: Le Figuier: Pas à pas , Aix-en-Provence 2008.
  • Pierre Baud: Figues , Vaison la Romaine 2005.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Seiler: Figs from your own garden , Stuttgart 2016, page 64.
  2. ↑ Pierre Baud: Le Figuier: Pas à pas , Aix-en-Provence 2008, page 75.
  3. ↑ Los higos de Valencia Granados at valencia-granados.com
  4. ↑ Christoph Seiler: Figs from your own garden , Stuttgart 2016, page 64.
  5. ↑ Christoph Seiler: Figs from your own garden , Stuttgart 2016, page 64.
  6. ↑ Christoph Seiler: Figs from your own garden , Stuttgart 2016, pages 76-77.
  7. ↑ Pierre Baud: Le Figuier: Pas à pas , Aix-en-Provence 2008, page 75.
  8. ↑ Christoph Seiler: Figs from your own garden , Stuttgart 2016, page 64.
  9. ↑ Pierre Baud: Le Figuier: Pas à pas , Aix-en-Provence 2008, page 75.