Olympian fig tree Ficus carica ‘Olympian’

Olympian fig tree plant start Ficus carica ‘Olympian’
This Fig won the Retailers’ Choice Award at the 2014 FarWest Show! ‘Olympian’ is a ultra cold hardy fig to zone 6. This fig has a very high sugar content, and produces very sweet fruits, with thin purple skin with a red to violet flesh. Discovered by retired biologist Denny McGaughy, he named it after the city where he found it in a sheltered location. Denny worked with Malli Aradhy, a geneticist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Clonal Germplasm Repository to conduct DNA test to find out if it was a known cultivar. It did not match any of the 200+ figs in the repository. It appears Denny has found a unique heirloom variety that produces well in cool & coastal climates.

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