The fig variety chart

Green → Strawberry red · Adriatic

The original strawberry-pulp green fig. Wants heat.

Yellow-green → Amber · Honey / sugar

Tight eye, resists souring; a Texas favourite.

Purple-black → Dark red · Berry

The collectors' benchmark. Slow, late, worth it.

Purple-black → Strawberry pink · Berry

California's fig since 1768. Big tree, reliable.

Grey-purple → Deep red · Berry

Old French variety, late and intensely flavoured.

Brown-purple → Amber-pink · Honey / sugar

Everyone's first fig. Hardy, forgiving, mild.

Yellow-brown → Amber · Honey / sugar

Large, hardy, with deeply lobed leaves. Open eye.

Violet-brown → Rose-amber · Honey / sugar

Closed eye, very hardy, drops fruit in drought. The South's fig.

Purple-brown → Pink · Berry

Dies to the ground in zone 5 and fruits on the regrowth.

Yellow-green → Red · Adriatic

The pale sibling of the Col de Dame family. Late.

Grey-green → Deep red · Berry

Jam in a skin. Late season, needs a long summer.

Purple-black → Deep red · Berry

The darkest of the family, and among the latest.

Green-yellow → Strawberry · Adriatic

Bred in California for heat and for drying.

Yellow → Amber · Honey / sugar

Closed eye, rarely splits. A clean honey fig.

Green-yellow → Amber-pink · Honey / sugar

Ripens in cool coastal summers when others won't.

Grey-violet → Red · Berry

Good breba, good main crop, old Provençal fig.

Green-yellow → Amber-pink · Honey / sugar

Early — hâtive means just that. A noted breba bearer.

Violet-brown → Rose · Honey / sugar

Celeste that keeps its fruit and adds a breba crop.

Yellow-green → Amber · Honey / sugar

The canning and drying fig. Nearly seedless.

Green-yellow → Amber-pink · Honey / sugar

Long, elongated fruit; heavy breba crop.

Yellow → Amber-pink · Honey / sugar

Big, sweet, open-eyed — pick promptly in rain.

Purple → Light strawberry · Honey / sugar

Mild, productive, resists nematodes. Bred in Louisiana.

Yellow-green → Amber · Honey / sugar

Thomas Jefferson grew it at Monticello.

Purple-brown → Amber · Honey / sugar

Made for cool, foggy coasts.

Green-yellow striped → Strawberry · Adriatic

Striped like a beach ball. Late; needs heat.

Purple-black → Red · Berry

Small, dark, rich; splits in rain.

Yellow-green → Amber · Honey / sugar

Closed eye, syrupy, sets well in pots.

Purple-black → Red · Berry

Small, early, intensely berry. Good in short seasons.

Yellow-brown → Red · Figgy / caramel

A Louisiana heirloom prized for flavour in humidity.

Green → Strawberry red · Adriatic

Closed eye; an Adriatic that handles humid summers.

Purple-black → Red · Berry

Good breba and main crop; Provençal.

Green → Strawberry red · Adriatic

Small, closed eye, hides from birds in the leaves.

Purple-black → Deep red · Berry

Compact, perfect in a pot, breba and main crop.

Yellow → Amber · Honey / sugar

Huge honey figs with a giraffe's neck.

Yellow-green → Amber, seedy · Honey / sugar

The California dried fig. Drops every fruit without the wasp.

Yellow-green → Amber, seedy · Honey / sugar

The Greek dried fig; the same wasp dependence.

Purple → Red, seedy · Berry

A North African Smyrna type, rarely grown outside the wasp's range.

Purple-black → Red, seedy · Berry

Tunisian; superb dried; wasp required.

Green → Strawberry red · Honey / sugar

The Pacific Northwest fig: a heavy June breba, and no one misses the main crop.

Green-yellow → Amber-pink · Honey / sugar

Portuguese; grown for its breba where the wasp is absent.

Green-yellow → Amber · Honey / sugar

The type's namesake. Big breba, wasp-dependent main crop.

Violet → Red · Berry

French; a breba fig in the north, two crops in the south.

Yellow-green → Amber · Honey / sugar

The edible caprifig. A curiosity people actually enjoy.

Green → Pithy · Figgy / caramel

The classic pollinator caprifig of the Central Valley.

Green → Pithy · Figgy / caramel

A heavy-pollen caprifig used for caprification.