Dear Friends, near and far away!
In Malta and Gozo, one can find a number of fig-tree varieties.
Here you can find a tentative list of such varities in Malta and Gozo around the 1920's. Many of these varieties are still being cultivated in Our Islands.
- The Caprifig (Maltese = Dukkar). There are three varieties of this: the White Caprifig (Maltese = Dukkar Abjad); the Red Caprifig (Maltese = Dukkar Ahmar) and the Green Caprifig (Maltese = Dukkar Bzenguli)
- The Black Bourgeassotte (Maltese = Parsott Iswed)
- The White Bourgeassotte (Maltese = Parsott Abjad)
- The Long Violet Fig (Maltese = Farkizzan, probably from Ficarazzi, in Sicily)
- The Small Black Fig (Maltese = Parsott Salvagg)
- The Long Black Fig (Maltese = Bzengul Iswed)
- The Round Violet Fig (Maltese = Tin Iswed)
- The Dikkiena Fig (Maltese = Tin tad-Dikkiena - a locality near Siggiewi where it is mainly grown)
- The Large, Broad, Red Fig (Maltese = Tin Ixheb Catt and sometimes called Tin ta' San Sidori)
- The Greenish Red Fig (Maltese = Tin Ixheb tat-Tqaddid)
- The Round Red Fig (Maltese = Tin Ixheb tal-Mejda)
- The Saint John's Fig (Maltese = Bajtar ta' San Gwann)
- The Long White Fig of Calabria (Maltese = Tin tal-Hannieqa or Bzengul Abjad or Tin Kalabriz)
- The Smirne Fig (Maltese = Tin ta' Smirni)
- The Thick-Skinned Fig (Maltese = Tin Gludi)
- The Golden Fig (Maltese = Tin Isfar)
- The Luscious White Fig (Maltese = Tin Zibdi)
- The Luscious Grey Fig (Maltese = Tin Zibdi Irmiedi)
- The Common White Fig (Maltese = Tin Abjad)
- The Large Flat White Fig (Maltese = Tin tal-Bahar or Tin tal-Buskett)
- The Round White Fig (Maltese = Parsott Abjad Salvagg)
- The Small White Fig (Maltese = Tin Abjad Salvagg)
- The Zondadari Fig (Maltese = Tin ta' San Sidori, the latter being a corruption of Zondadari, the Grand Master who is thought to have it introduced in Malta from Italy)
- The Sour Fig (Maltese = Tina Qarsa)
- The Long Yellow Fig (Maltese = Tin Langasi)
- The Large Round White Fig (Maltese = Tin tal-Bahrija as it is grown in this locality)
- The Long Green Fig (Maltese = Tin Ahdar or Tin Hadrani)
- The Sa Maison Fig (Maltese = Bzengul Abjad tas-Sur, where it grows)
- The White Lia Fig (Maltese = Tin Abjad ta' Hal Lija)
- The Large Dark Red Fig of Naxxar (Maltese = Tina ta' Alla u Ommu as it grows in this locality)
- Fig Pope Leo XIII (Maltese = Tina tal-Papa)
- The Variegated Fig (Maltese = Tina Imnaqqxa or Tina ta' Spanja)
... and as the saying goes,
variety is the spice of life!!Bye for now!!!
Ms Marcelle Cassar