This variety is more cold hardy than most other types of figs and is a favorite to grow in California and throughout the southeastern United States. The new growth will yield the largest crop from late summer into fall, but a smaller early crop on old wood is possible with favorably warm winter conditions. The Celeste Fig tree, sometimes called Celestial or Sugar fig, is known for producing delicious, sweet fruit with rose colored to violet skin. The fruits of this selection have a closed bottom eye, which resists pests and splitting.
CELESTE FIG SKIN
The 1-2", tear-drop shaped fruits have edible, purple skin and pink inner pulp. This tree, which grows 10 to 15 feet tall when mature, is hardier than most fig varieties, tolerating cold and hot weather with proper fig tree care. Sink your teeth into this fruit, and you’ll meet a sweet, honey flavor. The leathery, lobed foliage can reach 12" long and 7" wide. The Celeste Fig Tree produces a rose or violet-colored fruit with a brown tint. Mature plants will reach up to 10' tall with a similar spread, but will not reach their maximum size if winter cold kills back the stems. 'Celeste' (sometimes sold as 'Celestial', 'Malta', or "sugar fig") is a vigorous, cold tolerant, high-yielding fig cultivar that features sweet, flavorful, small to medium-sized fruits. Noted for its cold-hardiness, Ficus carica Celeste (Fig) is a deciduous multi-branched shrub adorned with large, thick, deeply lobed leaves, up to 1 ft.
Specific epithet refers to Caria, a region in Anatolia (Asia Minor) known for growing figs. Genus name comes from the Latin name for the edible fig. In fact, it is also referred to as sugar fig on account of its sweetness. Celeste is fairly cold hardy, and the fruit is small to medium in size and purplish bronze to light brown in color. The flesh is very sweet, and it’s popular eaten fresh as a dessert fruit. Celeste (Blue Celeste, Celestial, and Little Brown Sugar): This cultivar is probably the second most common fig in the southeastern United States. Also known in the South as the 'Sugar Fig'. This dwarf fig tree often looks more like a shrub than a tree. What is a Celeste fig The Celeste fig tree produces fruit that is medium in size and has light brown to purple skin and bright pink flesh. Species plants as well as most fig cultivars are parthenocarpic (fruits develop without cross pollination). Celeste figs are purple-bronze with a smooth pink flesh that is speckled with tiny seeds. In some areas, a lesser crop may appear in spring on new wood. The main fruit crop ripens in late summer or fall on new wood. The fruit (edible fig) develops within each receptacle.
Non-showy greenish flowers form in spring inside hollow receptacles near the branch growing tips.
Large, palmate, hairy, 3-5 lobed leaves (to 10” long) are rough dark green above and smooth light green beneath. Old trees with smooth silver-gray bark (sometime gnarled with age) are ornamentally attractive. It is noted for its spreading habit, attractive foliage and edible fruit. Ficus carica, commonly called common fig, is a deciduous shrub (to 10-15’ tall) or small tree (to 15-30’ tall).
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