Boysenberry Blush

Boysenberry Blush is a wild seedling discovered in California, credited to a grower known in the fig-collecting community by the forum name Fruitgrower. It produces a stunning fig with a deep burgundy interior, dense and jammy in texture, with a complex flavor genuinely reminiscent of boysenberries (blackberries). The variety sets fruit early and ripens starting early to early-mid season, bears heavily even in fairly shady spots, and can produce large fruit — up to around 120 grams reported by some growers. It performs notably well even without pollination, though growers who have compared pollinated and unpollinated fruit report the flavor becomes even more intense when caprified, and the fruit benefits from being allowed to hang and dry down slightly on the tree to develop its best texture and flavor rather than being picked as soon as it looks ripe. Its main documented weakness is a tendency toward a bitter, cinnamon-like flavor concentrated near the skin when the fruit ripens during unusually cool weather or in cool coastal climates.