‘Ithaca’ originated from Roy Young’s Nursery that was located in Abbeville, Louisiana. The nursery is now gone and the owner passed away years ago. If picked a couple days early ‘Ithaca’ tastes like peaches or apricots and has orange skin. Picked ripe it darkens to a more brownish-purple color and is sweet with less of a peach/apricot flavor. This fig appears to be a ‘Celeste’ type.
I thought that it looked like the Sunbird Unknown too. Maybe not quite as squat as Sunbird. But is another unknown that needs IDing.
But it does look like some version of a English Brown Turkey. A little like Sweet George.
I does look very good!
That fig does look really good.
It is spelled ‘Ithica’. Roy’s nursery is still very much in business operated by his son in law, Robert. Ithica is a large dark fig with pink flesh, very similar to California Brown Turkey, not anything like a Celeste.
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