Bountiful Figs

'Nero 600m' ('Dark Berry, Bordeaux Berry' flavor)

At a young age the leaves of a 'Nero 600m' fig tree often have two very different leaf shapes at once

01) Thin fingered leaves with little serration
02) Mulberry like leaves, un-lobed

Sometimes at a young age this cultivar has only one of the above leaf shapes.

As a tree of this cultivar ages this cultivar usually looses the 'mulberry like' leaf shape.

Oddly at a young age a tree of this cultivar can range from not a fastest growing cultivar to growing fast like a weed, in a short time. This cultivar is cold hardy.

This cultivar produces 2 crops in the right climate. The figs that it produces are unusually rain resistant, moisture resistant, souring resistant and split/crack resistant. It's figs properly ripen without tasting watered down, all of this is true when the figs of other cultivars fail to, it's fruit may still manage to dry on the tree 'even in the wettest of conditions'. This cultivar has been said to be 10 times better at ripening during rain when compared to the figs of the cultivar 'Violette de Bordeaux'. The eyes of it's fruit stays closed and tight.

It's dark purple perfumed fruit, is almost black, is very juicy, and is very sweet, the flesh of it's fruit is a dark red, and it has little to no seed crunch. It's small to medium fruit is nearly identical to the fruit of 'Violette de Bordeaux', and the quality of the fruit it produces is excellent. This cultivar usually starts production within the second season. Herman2 got this cultivar from France, it was found growing at a nursery in France, growing at an elevation of 600 meters. it is not 'Valle Calda', it's not 'Valle Negra', and it's not 'Violette de Bordeaux'. The fruit of this cultivar takes '80 days to ripen'.