Description
Black Genoa Fig
Fruit: Large
Skin: Purple
Flesh: Very rich and sweet.
Maturity: Ripens late summer.
Pollinators: Self-fertile.
Comments: Tree is large and vigorous. Fruit not suited to drying but excellent for jam.
Figs are self-fertile, fast growing deciduous trees well suited to Southern Australia’s hot dry summers and cool moist winters. Keep well watered in summer to avoid fruit drop but excessive water as fruit ripens could cause splitting.
Fruit is borne on new wood.
OUR TREES ARE LOCALLY FARMED & SOURCED WITHIN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
| Fig Black Genoa is a fast-growing, medium sized deciduous tree. It will produce an abundance of delicious, excellent flavored, large dark-red fleshed fruit with purple-green coloured skin. These beautiful figs are a staple of any Mediterranean style or ‘edible’ garden and the fruit is best eaten still warm from the tree accompanied by soft cheeses or made into paste or jam, and can also be dried. Fig Black Genoa is a reliable, heavy cropper with two crops a year, 1 in early spring on the older wood and the main crop in late summer on the fresher growth. These trees are very productive and will start to bear fruit in their first summer. Does fig have a flower? Inside the rounded fruit of a fig tree is a maze of flowers. That is, a fig is not actually a fruit; it is an inflorescence—a cluster of many flowers and seeds contained inside a bulbous stem, and shaped like a pear. The leaves are large, palmate in shape and medium to light green in colour. Figs prefer hot dry summers and grow best in warm, sunny positions with well-draining neutral soil, but can also do well in cooler climates. Once established they are hardy and frost tolerant. Mulch well and keep the water up when fruiting. Fig Black Genoa is self-pollinating and the leading commercial variety for fresh fruit production in Australia. . Fig trees are most productive and best maintained by pruning back to a height of around 1-2 meters every winter. Trees can be kept in large pots as long as they are pruned annually. |
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