Purple, Gold, Tiger and Champagne may sound like a brief recounting of LSU’s postgame national championship locker room celebration, but they are also four types of figs developed by the LSU AgCenter.
Initiated in the 1950s by horticulture professor Ed O’Rourke, the namesake of a fifth fig variety, the AgCenter fig breeding program was discontinued in the 1960s. Over the next 20 years, certain…