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Gris de St Jean
Gris de St Jean Information
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Possible Synonyms:
Grise St. Jean, Grey Of St. Jean, Gris de St. Jean, Gris de Saint Jean, Saint Jean
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Main Flavor Group:
Sugar -
Origin:
France -
Family:
Celeste -
Collected By:
Baud (Pierre Baud) -
Type:
Common -
Cold Hardy:
N/A -
Container Variety:
Yes -
Easy Rooting:
N/A -
Main Season:
mid -
Availability:
Average -
Breba Crop:
Yes -
Seed Crunch:
non -
Eye:
open -
Skin Toughness:
soft -
Fruit Size:
Small to medium -
Rain Resistance:
Excellent -
Tree Vigor:
Medium -
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Description
An early and prolific variety is Grise st.Jean. It’s skin is of velvet with a grey matte finish. The fig is extremely sweet and juicy. It’s supercharged by the fig wasp as well.
Brian Melton
From Breuil (1876): “Variety widespread: figs abundant flowers, large, very good, ripening in mid June; mediocre, smaller autumn figs; they are dried; Substantial (nutrient-rich) and cool (water) lands. Sturdy tree.
Description
Large tree, moderately leafy, medium vigor, cold-sensitive, demanding in water. Bifère fig, fig rare flower in the Southwest, July (45g, good productivity) September, October (30g, medium productivity), reddish, pruinose, suitable for drying, very fragrant.
Saint Jean: (syns. Grisé de Saint Jean, Saint Jean Gris, Grisé, Grisé Savantine Bifère, Grisé Madeleine, Grosse Grisé Bifère, Ficus carica grisea Risso). Described by Liger (1702), Knoop (1771), La Brousse (1774), Risso (1826), Barron (1891), Colby (1894), Eisen (1888, 1901), Stubenrauch (1903), Starnes and Monroe (1907), and Condit (1947).
Figured in black and white by Eisen and Starnes; shown in color by Condit (1941a). See comments (next page) on the name Grisé. According to La Brousse, Figue Grisé matures the first crop in June at Saint-Jean, although he did not specify the exact location of this French town. The fruits of Saint Jean, as grown in California, are of medium size or above in the first crop, and small to below medium in the second crop.
The variety described under the same name by Eisen as having very large figs may be a different one. Saint Jean is listed by Simonet et al. (1945) as a synonym of Cotignana, which is described in this monograph under Observantine.
The following Accession A new item added to an existing collection. In the case of fig varieties, it is the addition of a specific sample. A fig variety name may be associated with the accession, but accessions are usually tracked through a unique identifier that keeps specific samples separate from others which may have the same name. For example, the NPGS has the specific identifier DFIC 63 for a submission of the Violette de Bordeaux variety.
The tree of Saint Jean is only moderately vigorous, partly because of its extreme susceptibility to leaf mosaic (plate 13); it produces two crops. The leaves are medium to small, light green, 3- to 5-lobed; upper surface dull to somewhat glossy; upper sinuses shallow, of medium width, lower sinuses shallow; base deeply subcordate, often auricled; margins coarsely crenate. Description is from figs produced at Riverside since 1932, and at Fresno in the season of 1953.
Breba crop fair; fruits medium, up to 2-3/8 inches long and 2 inches in diameter, oblique-turbinate to pyriform; average weight 42 grams; neck variable, sometimes prominent and flattened to thick and short, or absent; stalk thick, up to 1/4 inch long; ribs present, but inconspicuous; eye rather large, open, scales violet, erect at maturity; white flecks small, masked by body color; color delicate grayish bronze; bloom fairly prominent; skin checking irregularly at maturity; meat white; pulp light strawberry; flavor rich and sweet; quality excellent; seeds medium, tender. (Plate 23, B.)
Second-crop figs smaller than brebas, but much the same in other characters; average weight 31 grams; neck, if present, very short and thick; bloom conspicuous on body, but absent from apex in many specimens; color a delicate violet-gray, attractive; pulp strawberry; flavor excellent.
Caprified figs somewhat darker in skin color; pulp deeper strawberry; seeds numerous, fertile. An excellent fig for fresh-fruit consumption, and usually dries without much spoilage. Too small for commercial use. (Plates 9, 23, E.)
A variety with the common name Grisé was described by Risso (1826) as Ficus carica grisea, but later authors apparently ignored the description, or at least failed to refer to it. Eisen (1901) reported that the name Figue Grisé is a synonym for three different varieties Beaucaire, Cotignana, and Matarassa. (For synonymy, see list at end of description section.) The fruit of Grisé de Saint Jean as grown in California compares so favorably with the description of Grisé by Risso that in this monograph these two are regarded as synonymous, and are described under the name Saint Jean. Figue Grisé, described by Merlet (1667), La Quintinie (1692), and a few other early authors, might properly be referred to as Saint Jean rather than Angélique.
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