Werribee Park Heritage Orchard
❄️ WINTER HERITAGE FRUIT TREE FESTIVAL - SUNDAY 9TH AUGUST
❄️ OUR SHOP IS CURRENTLY CLOSED AND WILL REOPEN AFTER OUR FESTIVAL
❄️ WINTER HERITAGE FRUIT TREE FESTIVAL - SUNDAY 9TH AUGUST
❄️ OUR SHOP IS CURRENTLY CLOSED AND WILL REOPEN AFTER OUR FESTIVAL
Blue Provence
Blue Provence
Blue Provence
$45.00
Description: Bunning’s catalogue of 1916 describes it as having large fruit with a true blue skin colour, ripening late. With “squat pyriform shaped fruit with a violet skin showing prominent ribs, an open eye and blue tinged/purplish meat with red seeds. .. Very soft and sweet. .. The tree is large and vigorous with exceptional large ornamental leaves. ” Skin.
Colour: Blue striped colour Flesh.
Colour: Purple flesh Breba.
Crop:
Harvest: Late.
Origin: France.
History: Rare fig variety offered for sale in Australia occasionally. Offered in Goodman’s Fruit Catalogue of 1911 to 1915.
Description
- Description: Bunning’s catalogue of 1916 describes it as having large fruit with a true blue skin colour, ripening late. With “squat pyriform shaped fruit with a violet skin showing prominent ribs, an open eye and blue tinged/purplish meat with red seeds. .. Very soft and sweet. .. The tree is large and vigorous with exceptional large ornamental leaves. ” Skin
- Colour: Blue striped colour Flesh
- Colour: Purple flesh Breba
- Crop:
- Harvest: Late
- Origin: France
- History: Rare fig variety offered for sale in Australia occasionally. Offered in Goodman’s Fruit Catalogue of 1911 to 1915
Additional information
| Product Type | Tree |
|---|---|
| Origin | Australia |
| Harvest | L |
| Skin | Blue strip colour |
| Flesh | Purple Red |
| Fig Type | Common |