Italian Honey Fig (Lattarula)

The "Italian immigrants brought this fig to America" origin story commonly repeated for the Italian Honey Fig / Lattarula is directly disputed by longtime fig collectors as inaccurate. What is documented: a Portland, Oregon nurseryman, B.R. Amend, described this variety under the name Lattarula in his own 1942 nursery catalogue — meaning its documented American naming history traces specifically to the Pacific Northwest nursery trade in the mid-20th century, not to any specific, verified immigrant-luggage story, even though the fig itself has a genuinely ancient history in the Mediterranean generally. The fruit has pale green-yellow skin with amber, honey-sweet flesh, and it remains one of the most widely grown and reliably productive fig varieties in the Pacific Northwest and similar cool-summer climates specifically.