Ficus carica 'Peter's Honey'
Ficus carica 'Peter's Honey' is very productive and reliable with sweet and richly flavourful, dark amber flesh.
Description:
Ficus carica 'Peter's Honey' is very productive and reliable especially in cool summer climates, producing abundant, yellowish-green figs with sweet and richly flavourful, dark amber flesh that tastes like honey. In coastal BC it ripens in early to mid August with abundant crops produced over about three weeks. Get ready to eat fresh figs every day, serve them with goat cheese wrapped in proscuitto, and make fig jam. You'll likely have so many you'll have to give them to friends and neighbours!
Common Name: Common Fig - [Citrus Pre-Order]
Family: Moraceae (The Fig Family)
Zone Hardiness: 7-10
Light: Full Sun
Height: 15-25'
Width: 10' and over
Primary Bloom Colour: Green
Secondary Bloom Colour: Yellow
Class: Deciduous
Type: Shrub
Bloom Time: Summer
Soil Moisture: Average, Dry, Drought Tolerant
Stem Colour:
Fragrance: No
Berries:
Benefits:
Deer Resistant: Yes
BC Native: No
Native Habitat:
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Geogrpahical Origin: Europe and Africa - Europe and Western Russia
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