Florea (fig)

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Florea , also called Michurinska-10 or Ali Pascha , is an old variety of figs of the Ficus carica species , which is the most widely cultivated fig variety in Bulgaria . The variety is known for its good taste, great winter hardiness and good yield.

The name Michurinska-10 was given to the variety by Radka Serafimova over 50 years ago during her scientific work on fig varieties in Bulgaria. Ali Pascha is a traditional name for the variety and Florea is a US name given to the variety. The variety is also grown in Romania , Serbia and Macedonia . “Green Michurinska” is not identical to Michurinska-10, but a different variety of figs.

tree

The Florea variety is vigorous. The leaf is five-lobed and deeply to very deeply incised.

fruit

The Florea variety is virgin , which means that it bears figs even without pollination by the fig gall wasp . The fruits ripen very early, the flowering figs as early as June, the main harvest, namely the autumn figs , from the end of July to October. The fruits are teardrop-shaped, not particularly large and green-brown to purple. The flesh is orange to raspberry-colored. The fruit has a good, but not exceptional, taste.

Winter hardiness

Florea is one of the hardest fig varieties ever. In Bulgaria it grows not only on the Black Sea coast, but also deep inland, for example near Plovdiv , where temperatures are quite low in winter. In severe frost, only the thinner branches freeze first, then the thicker branches and finally the trunk. The rhizome usually survives and then forms long ground shoots that can bear fruit in the same year.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michurinska-10 at floristae.de.
  2. ↑ Michurinska-10 at palmi.bg.
  3. ↑ Michurinska-10 at palmi.bg.
  4. ↑ Florea at Fig Database.
  5. ↑ Michurinska-10 at floristae.de.
  6. ↑ Michurinska-10 at palmi.bg.