Pastilière

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Pastilière fig.
Pastilière fig.

Pastilière is a traditional fig variety of the Ficus carica species , which is known for its excellent taste and great winter hardiness . Synonyms are "Rouge de Bordeaux", "Hirta de Japon", "Hirta del Giappone" or just "Hirta" and "Japanese fig". Pastilière is a single bearing autumn fig.

The variety was first described in 1845 by the Italian botanist Guglielmo Gasparrini . It is not the same as Ronde de Bordeaux , although the name sounds very similar to the synonym "Rouge de Bordeaux".

tree

Pastilière is slow-growing with thick, short shoots and in Central Europe usually only reaches a height of 2-3 m and remains compact overall. The leaf is usually five-lobed with medium-deep incised, rounded lobes. Typical for the variety are many, small leaf hairs on the underside of the leaf, which feel velvety and give the leaf a bluish tinge. The tree does not normally form any root shoots.

fruit

The round figs of the Pastilière variety weigh about 60 grams and are blue-gray when ripe. They are not very sweet but have a great aroma. They ripen in Central Europe from August to October, even before the Ronde de Bordeaux variety. The ripe figs have a very thin skin that cracks when ripe and is therefore very sensitive to moisture. It would therefore be best to plant the fig in such a way that it is at least partially covered, for example under a protruding balcony.

Although Pastilière is an autumn fig, i.e. it only has a single bearing, inedible flowering figs from the previous year often puff up in spring , but they soon fall off again.

Winter hardiness

Pastilière is considered to be one of the hardest fig varieties. In the case of very severe frost, only the thinner branches usually freeze to death. New shoots sprout from the trunk and the thicker branches and will bear fruit again as early as the next year.

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 83.
  2. ↑ Christoph Seiler: Figs from one's own garden , Stuttgart 2016, pages 83 and 86.
  3. ↑ Pierre Baud: Le Figuier: Pas à pas , Aix-en-Provence 2008, page 88.
  4. ↑ Christoph Seiler: Figs from your own garden , Stuttgart 2016, page 83.
  5. ↑ Pastilière at planetfig.com.
  6. ↑ Christoph Seiler: figs from one's own garden , Stuttgart 2016, pages 83-84.