For what it's worth--taste-wise, Lattarulla is very nice and ripened well for me last year in a pot. Last summer had cooler than usual weather patterns, but I still got good-flavored figs from Lattarulla. This year, I'm planting it out in the ground as part of a 3 in 1 planting with a Janice Seedless Kadota and a Peter's Honey. Petite Negri in my past experience is a good container fig as it stays truly dwarfed. The flavor as I remember it from 9 or so years ago is sweet with a rich, somewhat acidic undertone. I liked it very much, but killed my fig by letting it go too long without water in a clay pot--it was fried by the end of that summer :(. Of course all this is from a different zone than yours, but there ya go :)

Look at Fig4Fun for description of the two at http://figs4fun.com/fvar-O-P%20frames1.html Scroll down the pag and see Petite Negri and synonym Petite Negra. This description at Fig4Fun is sourced from many sources.

You know, one of my figs (not a Petite Negri) did the same exact thing, and I wondered if there were certain branches that were trying to revert back to a genetic predisposition. I don't know if this particular plant was grafted, but I think it's unlikely. I use to collect hybrid hybiscus before I moved out of the tropics, and I occasionally ran across that same problem....once in a blue moon, I'd get a branch that would shoot out, usually stemming from the base near the roots, but not always, and it would literally be one of the parent plants. In fact, I've got an evergreen bush out front that is doing the same thing...there is this one branch that zooms out a few times a year with leaves that look NOTHING like the bush that it's growing from. On my fig, with certain branches, all the leaves looked big and flat. Further up, a few branches would have just one lobe. Then at the top, the full leaf would exhibit all of it's lobes. It was very odd to see so many different leaf shapes on one plant, and I didn't think much of it. I'll pay attention to it when it starts to leaf out this spring. It would be interesting to see if non-hybrid figs display this same thing. Jeez....what's a non-hybrid fig??

I have a VBD fig and they are very different from petite negra. VBD bears long fruits with smooth skin -shown in the picture. Petite negra had a rounder fruit. The leaves on the VDB are also thicker than the ones on petite negra.