 The most famous of these rumors was that Livia, unable to poison his food in the kitchens because Augustus insisted on only eating figs picked fresh from his garden, smeared each fruit with poison while still on the tree to pre-empt him.In Imperial times, a variety of fig cultivated in Roman gardens was called the "Liviana", perhaps because of her reputed horticultural abilities, or as a tongue-in-cheek reference to this rumor.For some time, Livia and her son Tiberius, the new Emperor, appeared to get along with each other.