Pitiusas :: Comparisson reports

More highly valued amongst Ibiza natives are fig trees, offering numerous fruits during the month of August and part of September. The fig trees enjoy the rich soil, growing in exuberant plenitude to the point that, seen from afar, their extended branches resemble a lush treetop or an enormous thicket with numerous trunks. There are many existing varieties, distinguished qualitatively by their fruit. There are the blancos (white fig trees) which grow in the fertile valley soil and produce unusually large figs, soft and green-skinned which turn gold as they ripen. They are decidedly the best figs we can find on Ibiza and, as such, the most sought after and praised. These are followed by the coll de dama (“lady’s neck”) fig trees whose fruit is also white inside though their skin is slightly violet. There are also the negros (black) with black-violet fruit and, lastly, napolitanos, with very small, violet-coloured and extremely sweet fruit.

Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria. Las Baleares por la palabra y el grabado. Primera parte: Las Antiguas Pitiusas. Ed. Sa Nostra, Caja de Baleares. Palma de Mallorca. 1982