Asinaccio Fig

PEARS / COLLECTION ORCHARD

The mother plant was found in the municipality of Città di Castello (PG), there are no others. The plant is of medium height and vigor, with open foliage. Rustic, is traditionally reproduced by sucker. The leaf is generally three-lobed. Variety that flowers twice a year. The few early fruits  are globose, without neck, the later  fruits  instead have a thin skin of a beautiful intense green color, with many cracks when ripe; it is medium in size, with a flattened pyriform shape and a characteristic long neck, the ostiole is semi-closed. The pulp is deep pink, full, not too juicy, with medium large achenes. The products ripen between the end of August and mid-September. They are very suitable both for fresh consumption and for drying, for the thin skin, but also for the syrup as it is and the jam, perhaps flavored with anise or thyme.