The document provides information on various varieties of figs, apricots, cherries, loquats, and persimmons. It describes the botanical names, origins, characteristics, and popular varieties of each fruit. For example, it states that figs originated in Asia Minor and lists four main types: Common/Adriatic, Smyrna, San Pedro, and Capri. It provides details on morphological features and cultivation requirements for many varieties within each fruit type.
3. Fig
3
Botanical name : Ficus carica
Family : Moraceae
Chromosome no. : 2n =26
Origin : Asia minor
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Small deciduous subtropical fruit.
Edible part : syconium
Tolerate low temperature of -12°c
Perform well under T of 15-22°c
Sweet fruit eaten fresh or dried.
Types –
1. Common/Adriatic fig(edible)
2. Smyrna fig
3. San Pedro
4. Capri fig
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Type Popular
varieties
Flower
type
Mode of
pollination
No. of
crops
Listed
varieties
Other
features
Edible fig
Poona
Long
styled
pistillate
flowers
Fruit
develops
parthenoca
rpically
1 470 Seeds are
hollow with
out inner
kernels
and the
embryo.
Some
varieties
produce a
small
breba or
first crop
Conardia
Mission
Kadota
Brown
Turkey
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Type Popular
varieties
Flower
type
Mode of
pollination
No. of
crops
Listed
varieties
Other
features
Smyrna
Calimyrna
Long
styled
pistillate
flowers
Female
wasps
emerging
from the
spring caprifig
enter Smyrna
fig for
oviposition
and in the
process effect
pollination.
1 116 Originated
from the
caprifig. T
he fertile
seeds
contribute
to the
excellent
fruit quality
Zidi
Taranimt
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Type Popular
varieties
Flower
type
Mode of
pollination
No. of
crops
Listed
varieties
Other
features
San Pedro King Long
styled
pisitillat
e
flowers
First
crop(breba),
fruit develops
with out
pollination
but not
second
crop(main)
2 21 Commercia
lly not very
important
some whit
e large
fruited
types are
grown in
mediterran-
ean
countries
for drying
Gentile
San Pedro
Dauphine
Lampeiria
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Type Popular
varieties
Flower
type
Mode of
pollination
No. of
crops
Listed
varieties
Other
features
Wild fig or
Caprifig
(male or
goat fig)
Roading3 Flowers
short
styled
pistillate
flowers
and
functiona
l
staminat
e
flowers
near the
ostiole
Self fertile 3 20 A primitive
type. Fruit
s have
almost no
edible
value, but
serves as
and abode
for fig
wasp and
Smyrna
and San
Pedro figs
Samson
Stanford
Brawely
9. Poona Fig
9
Fruit : bell shaped, medium, 20-30g
Skin : thin, light purple with red flesh, sweet, good
flavour
Most popular – cultivated near Pune
For fresh consumption and drying purpose
10. Dinkar
10
Released by Marathawada Krishi Vidyapeeth,
Parbani
Commercial cultivation in Maharashtra
Medium type variety in yield
Produces about 200-300 fruits/ ha
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Fegra fig (Ficus palmata):
Small fruited fig of excellent taste
Grows wild in the mid-hill region of the Western
Himalayas.
12. International Varieties
12
Conardia :
• Good for table and
drying purpose
• Resistance to cracking
• Fruit pyriform, yellowish
green, pulp bright red.
• Flesh white in colour
• Single fruit weighs 50g.
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Flanders :
Dries well
Splitting occurs in unfavorable conditions
Fruit globose in form
Neck thick yellowish green in colour
Pulp amber coloured
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Excel:
No splitting of fruit takes place
Very good for fresh, drying and canning
Ovoid to globose
Pulp amber
Flesh white
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Gulbun :
Fruits with few splitting
Large 65-80g
Good cropper
Light yellow colour
Shape round flat
Pulp light pink
Flesh white
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Evrem:
Mid season cultivar high yielding
Attractive with no splitting
Fruit yellow round flat and small
Avg wt-35-50g
Pulp greenish and white flesh
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Black Jack
Fruit : large to very
large purplish-brown
Strawberry flesh with
taste
Small spreading tree.
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Black Mission
Large fruit with purplish
black skin, strawberry
flesh
Most productive variety
Best for eating fresh or
drying.
20. California Brown Turkey
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Brown Turkey
One of the largest fig
with watermelon-colored
flesh and violet-brown
skin
Requires considerable
heat to ripen evenly
Vigorous grower, for
large spaces
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White Genoa
Delicious flavored
green skinned fig with
pale rose pulp
Well adapted to cooler
coastal areas.
28. Varieties
28
Hachiya :
Widely cultivated persimmon cultivar
Fruit large, oblong, glossy, orange red, astringent
type
Apex pointed
Calyx persistent
Astringent till it is soft
Usually seedless
Quality very good
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Hykume :
Fruit medium to large in size, angular
Four sided pale orange in colour mottled
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Izu :
Non astringent, matures early
Orange red flat in shape
Appearance attractive
Susceptible to fruit fly attack
Plant with medium upright growth.
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Jiro :
Non astringent
Tree upright and vigorous
Fruit ripen in mid season
Large orange red
Calyx large
Quality excellent
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Fuyu :
Late ripening cultivar
Plant medium vigour with spreading growth habit
Crown rounded
Fruit medium sized oblate
Skin orange to deep red with 4 distinct lines
Excellent quality and storage
35. Tamopan
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Colour: golden red, tender, juicy with a distinctive
acorn shape.
Fruit : very large, thick skin; can be eaten with a
spoon from the half shell like an avocado
Flesh : very sweet
Excellent for cooking and baking.
Self-fertile.
36. Eurekha
36
Vigorous producer
Bright orange fruit, astringent until ripe
Starts bearing around the third year
Begins to ripen in October and continues late in
December
Semi-dwarf tree
37. Organic Sweet Pumpkin Persimmon
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This is even sweeter than Fuyu,
Fruit : crispy and delicious
38. Giombo
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Large fruit
Very productive
Excellent taste
Most cold hardy
Self-fruitful, astringent
39. Suruga
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Red, semi-flat fruit
Very sweet, excellent taste
Vigorous, slightly upright tree
Non-astringent
41. LOQUAT
41
Botanical name : Eriobotrya japonica
Family : Rosaceae
Chromosome no. : 2n= 34
Origin : Southern China
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Evergreen
Fruit : pome, non- climacteric
Largest producer : Spain
Rich source of vit . A
Seedlessness due to triploidy
Limiting factor for cultivation : frost
43. Varieties
43
A good dessert loquat should be :
Sweet, pulpy, mellow and melting in nature with
pleasant flavour
On the basis of variation in maturity time, fruit colour,
shape and origin
A) Chinese group : fruit pyriform, deep orange and
large
B) Japanese group : fruit small, rounded, yellow and
slender
44. Early (varieties which ripen from
mid- March)
44
1) Golden yellow
Tall and fast growing , upright spreading in nature
Compact with roundish- oval crown
Leaves : large, lanceolate
Fruit : medium in size, oval to oblong
Calyx : persistent, pubescent, thin , velvety and
golden yellow
Pulp : pale yellow to orange, soft, smooth, sub
acidic in taste
Mild flavour with black smooth seeds
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2)Improved golden yellow:
Tree and fruit characters very closely resembles to
golden yellow.
Crown is more open
Fruit shape oval to pyriform
Pulp : thick and more seedy
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3) Large round:
Vigorous spreading tree
Crown : compact and uneven
Leaves : dark green on upper surface, pubescent
below
Fruit : medium sized, ovate ,globose and yellow
Flesh: creamy, whitish at seed, thin firm
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5)Thames pride:
Tall , fast growing
Leaves: elliptic – lanceolate
Fruit : medium in size, pyriform, deep yellow,
surface(velvety)
Pulp : pale orange, medium thick
Flavour : mild , seeds(moderate in number)
49. Mid-season (start ripening from
last week of March)
49
1) Safeda :
Vigorous , upright tree
Leaves : elliptic – lanceolate
Fruit : large, oblong to pyriform, pale yellow
Flesh : creamish white, whitish at seed, smooth
tender, melts rapidly, juicy
Excellent taste
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2)Fire ball :
Fruit : small, oblong to ovate, saffron-yellow
Pulp: thick, corn husk colour, smooth and crisp, taste
(mild)
Sub acid and moderately seeded
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3) Improved pale yellow:
Fruit :medium, oblong- pyriform
Pulp medium thick, cream colour, smooth and soft,
pleasant taste, sub acid and moderately seeded
4) Large Agra:
Fruit : medium, oblong to ovate
Pulp :medium thick , pale orange, smooth and firm,
pleasant taste, sub acid and moderately seeded
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5) Mammoth :
Fruit small, oblong-pyriform
Colour – white, pulp- medium, orange coarse and
granular, pleasant taste, sub acid and few seeded
6) Matchless:
Pulp- medium, orange , coarse and granular
Pleasant taste, sub acid and few seeded
53. Late (start ripening from mid-
April)
53
1) Tanaka:
Dwarf tree, growth – medium, crown – compact
Leaves : elliptic – lanceolate
Fruit : small orange in colour, oval- ovate
Pulp : medium thick, yellow, firm, moderately seedy
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2)California advance:
Moderate growth, dwarf tree, upright
Crown – open and round
Fruit : oblong – pyriform , medium , surface :pale
yellow
Pulp: yellow, firm, thick, taste – sub acidic
Pleasant with many seeds
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Centenaria:
Mizuho x Mogi
Vigorous, regular bearer
Fruit : large yellow – orange , attractive uniform with
some purple spots
Flesh : yellow, firm , seeds (5-6)
56. Orange fleshed varieties
56
Big Jim
Originated in San Diego
Large, roundish to oblong fruit
Skin pale orange-yellow, medium-thick, easy to peel.
Flesh orange-yellow, very sweet
Excellent flavor.
57. Early Red
57
Medium-large, pear-shaped fruit
Borne in compact clusters
Skin orange-red with white dots
Excellent flavor
58. Golden nugget
58
Large, round to oblong fruit
Skin yellowish orange to orange
Flesh orange-colored, juicy, firm and fleshy
Sweet flavour
Tree vigorous, upright, self-fertile
59. Mogi
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Selected from Mogi, Japan
Small, elliptical fruit
Skin light yellow
Flesh relatively sweet
Ripens in early spring
Tree cold-sensitive, self-fertile.
60. Mrs. Cooksey
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New Zealand cultivar.
Large fruit, yellow flesh of very good flavor.
62. Wolfe
62
Originated in Florida
Fruit obovoid to slightly pyriform
Skin yellow, relatively thick
Flesh juicy, firm, flavor excellent
Excellent for cooking
63. White fleshed varieties
63
Advance Japanese
Medium to large, pear-shaped to elliptic-round fruit
Deep yellow in color
Borne in clusters
Skin downy, thick and tough
Flesh whitish, translucent, melting and very juicy
Pleasant flavour and good quality
64. Champagne
64
Fruit medium to large, oval to pyriform
Fruit cluster large, loose
Skin deep yellow in color with a grayish bloom
Flesh whitish, translucent, melting and very juicy
66. Sweet cherry
66
Botanical name : Prunus avium
Family : Rosaceae
Chromosome no. : 16
Origin : S-E Europe and N-W Asia
India : Kashmir, HP and hills of UP
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Delicious fruit
Mainly for table purpose
Rich in protein , sugar and minerals, more calorific
value than apple
Requires colder climate
Cherry blossom is very sensitive to spring frost
Plant is very sensitive to waterlogging
Flavour – Methyl anthrinilate and Methyl salicylate
Colouring compound : Keracyanin chloride
68. Varieties
68
Heart group ;
Fruit –heart shaped , soft and tender flesh
Colour –dark with reddish juice to light coloured with
colourless juice
Bigarreau group:
Fruit : roundish
colour of fruit and juice varies from dark to bright red
69. Varieties recommended for
different states
69
State Varieties
Jammu & Kashmir Black heart, Early purple black
heart, Guigne Noir Gross Lucenta,
Guigne Noir Hative, Guigne
Pourpova Precece, Bigarreau
Napoleon and Bigarreau Noir
Gross
HP Black Tartarian, Bing, Nepolean
White, Sam, Sue, Stella, Van,
Lambert, Black Republican, Pink
Early, White Heart and Early
Rivers
UP Bedford, Prolific, Black Heart,
Governor’s Wood
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Early Rivers
Very old cultivar, still in cultivation, have no. of desirable
characters
resistance to cracking
bears regularly though in fair quantities
One of the finest early ripening variety(early May)
Fruit – large, oval and black in colour
Flesh pink to reddish highly flavoured, sweet in taste
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Bing
Very popular, commercially grown variety in almost
all growing areas of the world.
Tree :upright, spreading, bears moderate to
profusely
Fruits :large to very large, roundish, skin red black
coloured
Flesh: dark very firm and crisp, sweet, flavourful and
aromatic
Juice dark red
Major defects- fruit cracking in rain, flowers are very
tender to low temperature, self sterile
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Compact Lambert
Dwarf
Foliage(dense), late flowering, heavy bearing
Fruit : medium
Obtained from Lambert through induced radiation
mutation
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Compact Stella
Radiation induced mutant of Stella
Used as pollinizer
Developed in Canada
Precocious, self compatible, heavy bearer
Fruit – heart shape, oval, black
Flesh – moderately firm
For dessert and canning purpose
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Van
Developed in Canada
Open pollinated seedling of “Empress Eugenie”
Self sterile
Tree – hardy and vigorous
Fruits – large, bright glossy red skin,
Juice- less, pale red in colour
Fruit stalk very small
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Celeste
Developed in Canada
Vigorous, productive,
Fruit – matures early, large,
Flesh – dark, good flavour
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Sunburst
Developed in Canada
Self fruitful, precocious
Fruit – large, slightly heart shaped
Flesh – pale red, juicy, aromatic
Stone adhere to flesh
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Lapins
Van x Stella
Developed in Canada
Tree – upright, productive
Fruit – large, heart shaped, less cracking
Skin – purple red to dark red
Flesh – firm, juicy, sweet
80. Sour cherry
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Botanical name : Prunus cerasus
P.avium x P.fruiticosa
Used for canning or cooking
Two groups (based on colour of fruit juice)
a. Amarelle – light red flesh and juice, flattened at
the ends, less acidic
b. Morello – very dark in colour, juice reddish, fruits
spherical or heart shaped
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English Morello
Small plants, hardy
Fruits – medium size, roundish, dark red in colour
Juice- dark red in colour
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North Star
English Morello x Serbian Pie No.1
Tree – hardy and self fertile, branches thin drooping
Fruit – round, medium, intense red(both fruit and
juice)
Dwarfing rootstocks for sweet cherries
87. Duke cherry
87
Prunus gudouini
Interspecific hybrid
Sweet cherry (P.avium) x sour cherry (P.cerasus)
Varieties- Ronald’s Duke
Royal Duke
May Duke
Arch Duke
89. APRICOT
89
Botanical name : Prunus armeniaca
Family : Rosaceae
Chromosome no. : 2n=16
Origin : North Eastern China
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Drought resistant, salt tolerant hardy temperate fruit
crop
Highly perishable fruit
Wild apricot or Zardalu originated from India
Fruit type : drupe
Maturity time : May to June
Ideal stage for freezing, canning and drying: Fully
ripe fruits
91. Varieties recommended for different states
91
State Varieties
HP
Mid hills New Castle, Early Shipley, Shakarpara
High hills Kaisha, Nugget, Royal, suffaida,
charmagz, Nari
Dry temparate Charmagz, Suffaida, Shakarpara,
Kaisha,
UP Charmagz, Kaisha, Moorpark,
Turkey,St. Ambroise, Early Shipley,
Chaubattia Alankar, Chaubattia Madhu,
Chaubattia Kesri, Bebeco
J & K
Ladak Halman, Rakchakarpa, Tokpopa,
Margulam, Narmu, Khante
Kashmir Turkey, Australian, Charmagz, Rogan,
Shakarpara
New promising varities for midhills
Early maturing Baiti, Beladi
92. Indian varieties
92
Chaubattia Alankar
Kaisha x Charmagz
Low chilling and early ripening
Chaubattia Madhu
Turkey x Charmagz
Early ripening
Chaubattia Kesri
St.Ambroise x Charmagz
Mid season variety
High dessert quality, being very sweet, juicy and aromatic
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Halman
Most important dessert and drying cultivar of Ladakh
Fruit : medium sized, golden colour
Flesh : very sweet, less juicy
Rakcha karpa
Dessert cultivar
Kernel : oil extraction
94. Shakarpara
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Delightful, white-fleshed apricot from Iran
Medium to large fruit with light yellow skin with pink
blush on
The pale yellow flesh is exceedingly sweet with
plum-like flavor
Kernel : bold, sweet
95. International varieties
95
New Castle
Very popular variety
Regular bearing
Fruit : Early ripening, roundish medium size, suture
prominent, Yellow in colour
Flesh : yellow to orange, sweet juicy
Stone partially free
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Shipley Early
Excellent dessert cultivar
Early ripening
Fruit : creamish white
Flesh : firm, white to creamish, very sweet and juicy
Kernel : bitter in taste
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Royal
Popular cultivar of mid hills
Tolerate high heat
Fruit : ripen by mid June, large, yellow in colour
Flesh : firm yellow , sweet and juicy
98. 98
Nugget
Regular bearer
High fruit quality
Fruits : medium large, round, thin and soft, dark
yellow to orange
Flesh : firm, deep orange, sweet and juicy
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Charmagz
Cultivated in higher altitudes
Shy bearer
Fruit :round, medium, straw yellow colored
Flesh : pale yellow, flavour – aromatic,
Very sweet, high sugar content, used for drying
100. 100
Harogem
Evolved in Canada
Self fruitful
Fruit : round – ovate, bright red blush
Flesh : orange, firm, moderate juice, high keeping
quality
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Moorpark
Best variety when fully ripe, but shy in bearing
Fruits : roundish, large
Skin : light orange with light red blush
Flesh : juicy, sweet and excellent in taste
103. Sungold
103
Bright orange apricot with a sweet, mild flavor
Use fresh, canned, or as jam
Early to midseason harvest
104. Perfection
104
Fruit is large, oval to oblong
Light yellow–orange skin with a pebbly appearance
Yellow to yellow-orange flesh
Early harvest.
105. Reference
105
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