First introduced to the United States in 1768 when Franciscan missionaries planted it in San Diego. It was also planted in the subsequent missions that the Franciscans established up the California coast.  The Mission fig is a high quality fig variety, considered to be an "everbearing" variety, and produces both a breba and main crop with the breba crop being large and the main medium-sized.  It is a dark skinned fig with a strawberry colored interior.  The skin of the fruit often cracks when it is ripe.