Coll de Dama Mutante Fig - September 12, 2020

Coll de Dama Mutante has grown very well for us, having been rooted in December 2016. We hoped to have fruit from our tree in 2019 based on the trees size but the first fruits began ripening for us in late August 2020 and today we finally had enough fruits to do our first video review of this variety which was discovered by another collector in Spain who then shared it with other collectors in the U.S. who then shared it with us. The fruit is very characteristic of Coll de Dama / Col de Dame varieties with a thick jammy pulp with a rich berry flavor and mild sweetness. This variety is of somewhat unknown origin as the Spanish collector found this along a road and gave it the "Mutante" name as it appears to be a mutated strain given striped fruits. Carlos is the name of the Spanish collector, I could not remember his name during the video.

This is a common type variety (pollination not required) and it has fruited for at least a few others in states without the fig wasp. We are hoping that fruits will start ripening earlier for us next year as it is not known to be a late variety for some of these other growers.