Lsu Purple Fig Taste
The mild flavor is good and the fruit has high sugar content.
Lsu purple fig taste. It is very hard for me to pick the top tasting fig of the year but out of all the lsu varieties this should be the top pick and and the top five out of all the figs that i have tasted this year. Magnolia malta sugar fig small to medium fig with light brown to violet. Cold resistant and a good pot plant. Lsu purple is a mid season fig beginning to ripen a few weeks after improved celeste with violette de bordeaux and brooklyn white.
A heavy main crop is produced in july followed by a later crop that often lasts into december. Earlier type with some brebas. This prolific bearer will have you eating sweet healthy figs almost year round drying your own fruit for storage or making jams and preserves. Unlike other trees the lsu purple fig has three fruiting seasons.
Marseilles is a reliable and shapely yellow honey fig. These figs have a notably high sugar content so the flavor is super sweet. A light crop in early spring a large main crop in july and a late crop in november or even early december. Though unlike violette and brooklyn white lsu purple produces no breba crop six weeks prior it remains a beautiful flavorful fig that can produce in short seasons.
The figs of an established lsu purple tree can taste much like maple sugar candy a flavor familiar to most northern growers providing for interesting comparisons. Good for colder climate 13 c. Mademoiselle de deux saisons an excellent yellow redish juicy fig. Lsu gold is a big bright honey fig and lsu purple is a productive dark fig that can taste like maple sugar candy when fully mature.
Fruits are medium in size and weight with dark purple glossy skins and light strawberry colored flesh with a high sugar content when ripe. Description grow glossy purple fruit enjoyed fresh or dried. Introduced in 1991 by the louisiana agricultural experiment station lsu purple is ideal for usda zones 9 and warmer and is particularly suited to hot humid areas. The lsu red has all the sweetness of a celeste and a very intense jami berry flavor that definitely consumes your taste buds.
Lsu purple a very rigorous grower. Plus lsu purple figs get rave reviews for flavor. Red to dark large fig with excellent flavor and high sugar content. The pulp is light amber to light red when ripe.