The Two Types of The Coll de Dame Blanc

[Yatko]

Col de Dame = French wording.
Coll de Dama = Catalan/Mallorcan wording, used in Spain, especially Mallorca/Catalonia.
Cuello de Dama = Castilian Spanish wording.

Basically I bought a fig tree in 2025 and my tree was sold/labeled as Cuello de Dama Blanca. Thinking it was Col de Dama Blanc.

But later after eating the main crop I tasted a very different flavor then described on YouTube. It tasted like a rich honey gourmet. Basically after doing some research I found out that this name Cuello de Dama Blanca is also linked with Gota de Miel, which means “drop of honey” in Spanish. In Catalan/Valencian it is Gota de Mel.

That makes sense now because my fruit is not the red-pulp berry type most people show online as Coll/Col de Dama Blanc.

Mine is lighter colored inside, very sugary, honey-like and fits that Cuello de Dama Blanco / Gota de Miel honey line much better.

So I would not call mine the common red-pulp Coll de Dama Blanca type people usually show. I think it is another white lady-neck fig under the Cuello/Coll/Col de Dama name group, but this is the less known honey version, associated with Gota de Miel / Gota de Mel.

So if you see a Gota de Miel or Gota de Mel fig, there is a good chance it is this honey-type white lady-neck line, not the red berry-type Coll de Dama Blanc most people know from videos.

So I think I figured it out after almost a year...
Same lady-neck group, totally different flavor. Cuello de dama Blanca aka Gota de Miel/mel is the honey type of the lady's.

Main crop (2025):

Leaves of my Spanish version with Breba's here and there (2026):

Breba (2026) still ongoing:

Main Crop (2025):

French version:
Pictures are not mine from the french version.


Hope this bring some clarity as it did for me.

Thanks for reading.

 

[ktrain]

Yeah the leaves in the bottom photo are the typical CDD shape most of us are used to.
I have that one.
To be honest I didn't even know there was a version that was more honey like.
Interesting.

 

[Yatko]

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[ktrain]

The naming is confusing. I changed my wording a bit. I shouldn’t make it purely French vs Spanish. (the reason I mentioned French is because most of the sources and YouTube videos I found showing Coll/Col de Dama Blanc had the red interior and berry-like flavor. So in my mind I connected that version more with the French/collector descriptions)

It’s more red-pulp berry type vs honey-type naming. Some Spanish, French and Italian sources also show the red-pulp type, while some Spanish sources use Cuello/Coll de Dama Blanca and Gota de Miel/Gota de Mel for the honey type. So I think it’s more a synonym/nursery naming issue than a country issue. The exterior is almost identical, with that same lady-neck shape, so in my opinion it still belongs in the Coll/Cuello de Dama type of figs.

The flavor is good. It has a nice deep honey taste to it, almost refreshing, very sweet and rich.

I’ll update again in 2026. It ripened kind of late for me, around early October, but I did repot it 2 or 3 times during the year, so that probably slowed it down a bit.

It has around 5 brebas this year, not that many. It is also my 2nd season for this fig so I am still learning as i go, but still interesting. It also has a lot of upcoming main crop, so it should be a good year. After that, I’ll prune it.

Looking forward to seeing some pics.
Naming and origins can seriously become distorted as they are sold and traded and sold and traded over and over.
One of the reasons I will only add from select sources.

 

[Dave The Fig Guy]

Looking forward to seeing some pics.
Naming and origins can seriously become distorted as they are sold and traded and sold and traded over and over.
One of the reasons I will only add from select sources.

Same here. I guess I got lucky with mine. I got it in a cuttings trade about 12 years ago. Took it 4 years to produce fruit. I was about ready to give up on it. Glad I didn't.

 

[FL_figmam]

I don't think there's two different varieties of Blanc. The spelling differences are based off where they're from. Some of the varieties are French and some are Spanish. I name mine depending on where they are from to be "technically" correct. I have 7 varieties and record them as:

Col de Dame Blanc
Coll de Dama Bordissotenca
Coll de Dama Ciutat
Coll de Dama Gegantina
Col de Dame Grise
Coll de Dama Mutante
Col de Dame Noir

 

[ktrain]

Same here. I guess I got lucky with mine. I got it in a cuttings trade about 12 years ago. Took it 4 years to produce fruit. I was about ready to give up on it. Glad I didn't.

I try to give trees at least 3 years to prove they deserve to be in my collection. lol
After that I don't want to invest the time.
Some have not made it that long before I decided to let them go.

 

[Yatko]

I don't think there's two different varieties of Blanc. The spelling differences are based off where they're from. Some of the varieties are French and some are Spanish. I name mine depending on where they are from to be "technically" correct. I have 7 varieties and record them as:

Col de Dame Blanc
Coll de Dama Bordissotenca
Coll de Dama Ciutat
Coll de Dama Gegantina
Col de Dame Grise
Coll de Dama Mutante
Col de Dame Noir

Well I think it is, same characteristics but different flavor, see my post again I've edited it

 

[Yatko]

Looking forward to seeing some pics.
Naming and origins can seriously become distorted as they are sold and traded and sold and traded over and over.
One of the reasons I will only add from select sources.

Updated my main text for extra clarity.

 

[GoodFriendMike]