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There may be two distinct varieties by this name: Common vs smyrna, and red vs light interior. Growing conditions? This variety listing refers to the well-known common, commercial variety in Portugal, with a white/amber interior.
See also Lampa Branca (Rosa).
Wikipedia Translation
Lampa Branca is a cultivar of fig type Common fig Ficus carica Bifera ie two crops per season, brevas spring-summer, and figs fall (in Portugal are called of the “Group Cachopo”), the epidermis has both the brevas as in figs light green background color and on color of regular yellow bands. Are grown mainly in the packages, in Vila Nova de Cacela, a freguesia (Parish) Portuguese of the town of Vila Real Santo Antonio, in the district of Faro.
History
Extensive cultivation of fig trees was traditional in Portugal, especially in the Algarve, Moura, Torres Novas and Mirandela regions. They were harvested called “vindimos figos” which were destined for the market of dried figs, for human or industrial consumption but also for animal feeding.
It was a low density fig tree, between 100 and 150 fig trees per hectare, with large trees, low productivity and a lot of labor. All this, together with the strong competition of figs from North Africa and Turkey, caused a progressive abandonment of this crop.
Nowadays, it is recovering, but production oriented for fresh consumption, imposing more productive varieties adapted to the demands and tastes of the market, increasing planting densities and even providing the possibility of irrigation. The production of figs for the fresh fruit market has two different times of production. One in May, June and July, which is the time of “figos lampos” (brevas); and another in August and September, until the first rains, which is the time of the “vindimos figos” (figs).
Features
The fig tree ‘Lampa Branca’ is a biferous variety (“Grupo Cachopo”), of the common fig type, the fruits are parthenocarpic, that is, they do not require the caprification process. The ‘Lampa Branca’ trees are open-bearing trees, with a low tendency to form stems in the foot, of medium root. Tree of strong vigor; scarce root cones positioned on the trunk and primary branches, very prominent; branches of the first and second year with semi-straight bearing, branches of the 1st year with a linear tendency and the branches of the 2nd year with a curved tendency, branches of the 1st year with a fine thickness and of the 2nd year with medium thickness; 1st year branches with brown epidermis and lenticels evident; Apical bud of small size and conical shape, with the color of green scales.
The leaves have the limbus with an average length of 21.8 cm and an average width of 23.0 cm on average, with an average length / width ratio (0.95); little hairiness both in the beam and in the underside, brightness of the medium beam, and color of the light green beam and in the underside with a slightly lighter shade than in the beam; predominance of 5 lobes (pentalobada) in the leaves, lobe shape “can”, serrated margin, base shape “sagitata”; petiole of medium size (8.7 cm) and light green.
The fruit is formed by the process of parthenocarpy, that is to say without pollination by Blastophaga psenes, producing a crop of brevas in spring-summer and figs in summer-autumn, both of large size, have a piriform shape in brevas and oblong shape in figs, with symmetry along the asymmetrical vertical axis in both the brevas and figs; short and thick peduncle with the shape of the cross-section of the triangular peduncle, easy abscission when the fruit is ripe in the brevas and difficult abscission in figs; with ostiolus size large, ostiolar opening present, ostiolar gout absent, middle ostiolar scales, color of ostiolar scales in contrast to the color that the skin of the fruit; minimal skin cracks, skin brightness present in the brevas and absent in the figs, size of the middle lenticels, scarce fruit hair, its epidermis has both the brevas and figs light green background color and color of regular yellow bands; skin texture is fine; receptacle color (mesocarp) white, amber pulp color; succulence of the middle pulp in both brevas and figs, small internal cavity, numerous achenes Medium-sized; quality fruits resistant to manipulation in the brevas and little resistant in figs, average weight 70.5 gr in brevas and 62.0 gr in figs, with an average number of fruits. Very early ripening in brevas and figs.
Cultivation
‘Lampa Branca’ is a variety very adapted to the dry land cultivation. Very cultivated in the Algarve, in Vila Nova de Cacela, which is a Portuguese freguesia (parish) of the municipality of Vila Real de Santo António, in the district of Faro.
They are grown for consumption as a fresh fig and also produce excellent dried figs. Brevas have the same economic importance as fig production.
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