White Adriatic
Also known as Adriatic, Verdone, Strawberry fig
Green skin outside, vivid strawberry-red flesh inside, and a bright berry flavour that makes one of the best jams of any fig.
- Skin
- Pale green
- Flesh
- Strawberry red
- Size
- Medium
- Flavour
- Bright, berry-like, noticeably tart for a fig
- Ripening
- Main crop late summer
- Best use
- Jam, drying
Cut a ripe White Adriatic open and the contrast is startling: pale green skin around flesh the colour of strawberry jam. The flavour lives up to it, with a berry brightness and acidity that most figs lack.
That acidity is what makes it such a good jam fig. Cooked down, the colour holds and the flavour stays lively instead of turning flat and sugary. It has long been grown in California for drying and for fig paste.
Origin
Italy; widely planted in California from the late nineteenth century.
Crops and growth
- Breba crop
- Light
- Main crop
- Good
- Cold tolerance
- Moderate
- Growth habit
- Vigorous, spreading