Condit Monograph

Roeding No. 1: See descriptions by Eisen (1901), Roeding (1903, 1914), Rixford (1918a), and Condit (1920a, 1933, 1947), with illustrations of profichi (1920a, 1933). It was introduced from Meander Valley of Turkey in 1887 by Fred Roeding, Fresno, and for many years was the most widely planted of any caprifig because of tree vigor and ease of propagation; it was later superseded by better varieties.

Tree vigorous, spreading, with green terminal buds, inclined to produce numerous hollow, polleniferous figs or “blanks”; leaves medium, 3- to 5-lobed, middle lobe broad toward apex, narrowed toward base; sinuses rather shallow; base cordate; margins coarsely crenate throughout; surface dull.

Mamme crop good; figs small, oblate-spherical, without neck; ribs indistinct, narrow; color green, with conspicuous, small white flecks; interior purple.

Profichi crop good if well colonized by blastophagas; figs variable, small to medium, from 1 to 1-1/2 inches in diameter, turbinate to spherical, with or without short, prominent neck; ribs present but inconspicuous; eye slightly protruding from the rounded apex; color light green; white flecks fairly large and scattered; interior purple. Season medium early.