Unusual Fruit ripe end July/August 2024

Apple (Malus domestica) AGRA

 

 

A Latvian apple variety, bred by Rudolfs Dumbravs. It is a very early ripening variety, and suprisingly of very good taste for an early variety. Also It is reasonably crisp, but not too crisp, flesh is creamy colour and very juicey. The fruit is small to medium size, with skin colour being red all over.

Register type:

Plant Breeders’ Rights
Holder: APP Darzkopibas instituts
Future expiration date: 31/12/2032

Pear (Pyrus domestica) MOSKOVSKAJA

MOSKOVSKAJA is a Russian variety and translates to Moscow in English. It is a very early pear variety, of a medium size, and it has got good taste with ample juice. However as with many early pears they do not store, and they need eating straight away as they can go mushy. It is supposed to be partly self-fertile, but other early flowering varieties near by would be beneficial. In good sunny years one side has a red hue to the skin.

Japanese Plum (Prunus. salicina) BURBANK

The variety ‘Burbank’ was imported into USA by the famous US fruit breeder Luther Burbank from Japan in 1883-1885 and it started to be sold in 1888. The tree is vigorous, spreading, a precocious bearer, and self-sterile. Fruit are almost round with a red colour over a deep yellow background,  The flesh is golden yellow, juicy, very sweet, but not intense in flavour. It is classed a clingstone. It ripens here in early August, with a long period of harvesting, which for a home gardener is probably ideal.

Plum (Prunus x hybrid) RUMJANAJA ZORKA

Large-fruited Siberian plum that is succesfull in northern growing regions with cold winters and unpredictable spring weather.  A hybrid of Cherry plum (Prunus cerasifera), Japanese plum (Prunus salicina), Ussurian plum (Prunus ussuriensis) and Chinese plum (Prunus simonii).

Very good resistance to fungal diseases. It flowers early and it is self fertile, but larger harvests can be achieved if grown with another Japanese Plum (Prunus. salicina).

Ready for harvesting in early August, when the generaly yellow skin turns to a brillant orange then into red. It is classed as a free stone, but we find it to be a clingstone.

Plum (Prunus) – Sharky’s Plum® Black

Sharky plum black is a novelty with an unusual fruit shape. They resemble a shark’s tooth in shape, that is it has a little titty at the bottom.

However our variety seems to have lost this phenomena, and it is just roundish. In fact it looks more like a plum variety called HOLLYWOOD.

The fruits are however medium sized and are still edible and very tasty. The flesh is juicy, sweet and aromatic. It is harvested in early August and is self-fertile. The leaves and bark all have a red hue.

Plum (Apricot x Siberian plum) GLOBUS

This variety GLOBUS is a hybrid of apricot and Siberian plum. Very high frost resistance and very good resistance to fungal diseases.

A cross Siberian plum Obilnaya x apricot breed in 2002 at the Crimean agricultural improvement station Ukraine.

It is partially self-fertile, but the harvest will be higher with a another variety near by. Suitable pollinators are apricots, Siberian plums or plums.

The fruits are very large with the skin being shiny, dark purple to black. The flesh is predominatly yelowish with a red hue under the skin. It is regards as freestone, and ripens early August.
The taste is excellent being sweet with mild acidity with an apricot aroma and it is very juicy.

Considering its apricot parentage it succeds outside where apricots fail to grow.