White Genoa Fig

White Genoa is a heritage Italian cultivar documented in historical nursery catalogs including Railton's (1880) and Goodman's (1914). Confusingly, older sources list it under synonyms overlapping with several other named varieties — including Lattarula and White Marseilles — though the heirloom-fig researcher Facciola specifically distinguishes White Genoa as its own separate cultivar rather than treating those names as fully interchangeable, and this database follows that distinction. The fruit is large and pyriform, with greenish-yellow skin mottled with white and amber to reddish-pink flesh with a mild, some say lemony, flavor — gentler and less intensely "figgy" than richer-flavored varieties, which some growers specifically prefer. It ripens mid-season and is good for fresh eating, drying, preserving, or jam. The tree grows upright and benefits from regular annual pruning.