Figvariety
Calimyrna
Also known as Sarılop
Sarılop
A Smyrna-type fig that needs cross-pollination, unlike most garden figs.
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Taste & texture
For fresh eating, a sound, tender fig can be more enjoyable than one chosen mainly for firmness. Buy fragile ripe fruit close to when you'll eat it.
sensory study · Madera County orchard and Fresno, California, USA · 2006
Read the evidence
In a 2006 tasting with 100 shoppers, four fig cultivars harvested tree-ripe received higher pooled liking and acceptance than fruit picked at commercial maturity. Mean liking was 7.0 versus 5.3 on a nine-point scale.
- Fruit tested
- Whole fresh figs, two harvest maturities; samples tasted at 20°C
- Varieties compared
- Mission, Brown Turkey, Calimyrna, Kadota
- Use studied
- Fresh eating unless otherwise specified
- Published
- 2010
How to spot it
- Shape
- round, flat
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
- weight
- 65–70 g · Turkeyarastirma.tarimorman.gov.tr ↗
- shape
- round, flat · Turkeyarastirma.tarimorman.gov.tr ↗