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Variety: Lampeira (DFIC 342)

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NPGS ID: DFIC 342

AKA: DFIC 194, Bacalar Preto, Bispo Cachôpeiro Preto, Burro, Figue des Confiseurs, Gentio, Lampa Preta, Lampo Preto, Lampaga, Lampas, Lampeira Preta, Pacreca, Portoghese, Roma Preto, Tiberio, Villalba, Vindimo Preto

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DFIC 194 - Original donation from CRFG.
DFIC 342 - Re-donated also from CRFG.
See also PI 18871

Description: Grown commercially in Portugal for fresh crops. Large breba production, brownish green epidermis, red pink pulp, thin skin, pyriform.

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History
Lampeira comes from the Portuguese "Ficos Lampos" figs-flowers.
Described and illustrated by Galesio in 1817, he specifies that this variety is common in Tuscany and especially in Florence.
In Portugal, the flower fig harvest is called "figos lampas" and the figs "figos vindimos". Lampira was grown around Tavira in the Algarve.
Description
Medium-sized tree, medium to strong vigor, hardy, cold-hardy, leaves of 3 to 5 lobes, this fig having been strongly reproduced, it presents a certain number of clones with more or less variations. Bifrose fig, green brown epidermis, red pulp, fig flower 85g / 70g, (good productivity), autumn green brown fig with the violet parts of the sun, the fig can dry on the tree taking cork tints, grown in arboriculture (in Tuscany), good taste quality.

Lampeira, a very good late variety easy to recognize and very fertile. From Portugal! Lampa means breba.

DFIC 194: Accession was donated. 01-Feb-2001. California United States. Donors: Kennedy, Todd, California Rare Fruit Growers. Comment: Donated to NCGR, Davis.

DFIC 342: Accession was donated. 21-Feb-2008. California United States. Donors: Kennedy, Todd, California Rare Fruit Growers.

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Condit Monograph: Lampeira: (syns. Portoghese, Lampas, Figue des Confiseurs). Described and illustrated by Gallesio (1817), Gasparrini (1845, as Ficus pachycarpa var. lusitanica), Pasquale (1876), Mello Leotte (1901), Eisen (1901), Simonet et al. (1945), Tamaro (1948), and Baldini (1953); the last with illustration of leaf and brebas. It is also figured by Tamaro. According to Gallesio, this variety was very common in Tuscany, especially at Florence, and was figured as No.17 under the name Lampas Portoghese. Eisen praised it highly by stating: “What the White San Pedro is for Andalusia in producing the luscious brebas, the Lampeira is for southern Portugal.” It is probably this same variety which Bobone (1932) described and illustrated as Figo Burro, with the following synonyms: Burro, Gentio, Roma Preto, Bispo, Cachôpeiro Preto, Bacalar Preto, Lampo Preto, and Vindimo Preto. Lampeira was once introduced into California, probably as P.I. No. 18,871, and fruited at Niles, but no later records of its occurrence or behavior in this state are available. The following description is after that of Simonet.

Tree moderately vigorous. Leaves small; deeply 3-lobed.

Brebas large, about 3-1/2 inches long and 2-1/2 inches broad, pyriform, with prominent neck and medium stalk; average weight 102 grams; eye large, open, scales violet; color greenish yellow, tinged with violet on sunny side; skin glossy, rather thick; meat thin, white; pulp rosy amber, with violet shade toward the eye; seeds rather numerous. Quality excellent; appearance fine.

Second-crop figs medium or below, about 2 inches long and 1-1/2 inches broad, pyriform, with short, thick neck; eye partly open, scales rosy; skin delicate, checking at complete maturity, green flushed with violet; pulp deep red; seeds small. Second crop negligible without caprification.