Grape Variety: Tamar

Variety Name	Tamar
Common Synonyms	Afus Ali, Dattier de Beyrouth, Tamar Beyrouth
All Synonyms	Actoni, Actoni Maceron, Actoni Real, Aelibar Drenak, Aetoni Maceron, Afouz Ali, Afus Ali, Afus Ali Hijeli, Afuz Ali, Afuz Ali Alb, Afuz Ali Bijeli, Agrazaki, Alepo, Aleppo, Aleppoi Szoeloe, Aleppou, Alfons, Alfonse Ali, Allepo, Altan Tash, Altin Tas, Altin Tas Razaki, Anabolitiko, Anatolikon, Arkanoiotiko, Axinangelus, Aydin Razakisi, Bali Dranak, Bayadi, Bayrout Hurmasi, Beirutska Urma, Beiruty Datolya, Bejrutska Urma, Belle Doree, Beyroute Khourmassi, Beyrut Hurmasi, Beyrutska Smokva, Beyrutski Urmach, Boldon, Boldun, Bolgar, Bolgar Szoeloe, Bolgare, Bolgarszoeloe, Bolgarszolo, Caraburnou, Caraburnu, Carigradsko Grozde, Celibar Drenak, Celibar Dren, Chondorogo, Cilibar, Cotico, Cottico, Date Beirut, Datier de Beyrouth, Datil de Beirut, Datilera, Datilera de Beirut, Datolya Szoeloe, Datteltraube, Dattero di Negroponte, Dattier, Dattier de Bevrouth, Dattier de Beyrouth, Dimiski, Donna, Drenk Royal, Eleme, Galletta, Geinovyi, Gelber, Geroso, Gerosolomitana, Ginevra, Ginevra di Tivoli, Greco Napoletano, Grozderadsco, Hafiz Ali, Hafizali, Hafus-Ali, Hafuz Ali, Imperiale, Insani, Insolia, Insolia Parchitana, Insolie Parchitana, Inzolia Imperiale, Iurum Iuzum, Izmir Razaki, Karabournou, Karaburnii, Karaburnu, Kararubun, Kerino, Maceron, Marsigliana bianca, Marsiguiana bianca, Medoni, Mena Vaca blanca, Menavacca bianca, Mennavacca, Nebi Dede, Parchitana, Pepita de Oro, Pergolana, Pergolona, Pergolone, Provalone, Provolone, Raisin d'Or, Raisin de Constantinople, Rasaki, Rasaki di Rodi, Razacha Carmaz, Razachie alba, Razachie de Dealul Mare, Razaki, Razaki Beyaz, Razaki Kabalas, Razaki of Kavala, Razaqui, Raziqi, Real, Redzhina, Regina, Regina bianca, Regina bianca di Firenze, Regina de Beyrouth, Regina della Malvasie, Regina di Puglia, Regina di Spagna, Rhajaki, Rhajaki Aspro, Rhazaki, Rhazaki Arkanon, Rosaki, Rosaki blanco, Rosaki Dorado, Rosaki Sari, Rosani, Roseti, Rosetti, Rosseti, Rozaki, Rozaki d'Anatolia, Rozaki de Dyalul Mare, Rozaki Sari, Rozakiya, Rozeti, Sam Rzaki, Sarga Lugas, Sarga Rozaki, Sarga Rumonya, Smyrneiko, Stambolese, Stamboleze, Sultani Razaki, Tamar Beyrouth, Tatarka Bela, Teneron de Vaucluse, Teramo, Teta de Vaca, Teta di Vaca, Tete de Vache, Tsargradskii, Tsarigrasko Grossde, Tzar na Grozdata, Tzarigradsco Grozde, Uirum Iuzum, Uva del Vaticano, Uva di Constantinopla, Uva di S. Francesco, Uva di S.Francisco, Uva di San Francesco, Uva Donna, Uva Ghiotta, Uva Ghiotto, Uva Marchesa, Uva Real, Uva Regina, Uva Turca, Waltham Cross, Zeine, Zeine, Zhuta Razakiya, Zirnsko Belo
Countries of Origin	Lebanon
Species	Vitis vinifera
References	Show 1 reference Hide references Vitis International Variety Catalogue (VIVC). Federal Centre for Breeding Research on Cultivated Plants (BAZ). Institute for Grapevine Breeding Geilweilerhof (IRZ). August, 2007. Link The former National Grape Registry (NGR) was initially compiled and annotated using the earlier version of the Vitis database. The VIVC underwent a significant update beginning in 2007. Corresponding updates to this Registry will be made as necessary.
Berry Color	White
Uses	Table,Wine
Comments	The prime name for this variety in the country of origin (Lebanon) is Afus Ali.

Tamar Selections

Information about: Selection Numbers | Registration Status

How Selection Numbers are Created

Questions are often asked as to how Foundation Plant Services (FPS) decides which number to assign to the grape selections in the foundation vineyard and whether those numbers relate to particular clones that may be the sources of the FPS selections.

The answer for most selections in the FPS foundation vineyard is that selection numbers are assigned by the next available (unused) number in sequence for that variety. There is nothing magical about it. For example, the first Sauvignon blanc selection that came to FPS in 1958 was named Sauvignon blanc FPS 01. The next Sauvignon blanc arrival received the name Sauvignon blanc FPS 02. Gaps in the numbering system in the current list of available selections mean that the omitted number was taken out of circulation for some reason, such as death from disease.

FPS intentionally chose the word "selection" rather than "clone" when referring to the products offered in the foundation vineyard. The word "clone" can be confusing and ambiguous. The major European collections have formal evaluation protocols for grape material to qualify material for release as an official "clone". Evaluation criteria includes field performance and wine making characteristics.

FPS does not perform formal clonal evaluations on the grapevine materials accepted for the foundation vineyard. The word "selection" at FPS simply means the material was collected from a single source vine from the vineyard of origin, whether within the United States or from a foreign vineyard. Some of our numbered selections have been through trials here in California but FPS does not conduct those trials or evaluations.

Having said that, there is a subgroup of selections at FPS that are official numbered clones from the formal clonal development programs in Europe. Those official clones are imported and sold by the owners as proprietary (trademarked) clonal material in the United States. The owners are large government or nursery entities in Europe, such as the ENTAV-INRA® clonal material from the IFV program in France. In order to preserve the identity of those clones, FPS agreed to assign them the same official clone number that the program in Europe gave them when released there. Cabernet Sauvignon 685 from France received the name Cabernet Sauvignon ENTAV-INRA® 685 at FPS. The owners of those proprietary clones are the ones who vouch for or affirm the authenticity of their trademarked clones.

Lastly, there is a small subset of "clones" that came to FPS in the 1980's prior to the establishment of the trademark programs for the European clones. Those clones also came to the United States associated with clone numbers assigned when the clones were developed in Europe. Many of the French clones in that group were developed at Dijon in France and the material has been known as the "Dijon clones". Those French clones were not protected by an official trademark program at the time they came to the United States. Some of those clones are no longer used in France and some were incorporated into the ENTAV-INRA trademark program.

FPS refers to this subset of clones as "generic clonal material". FPS agreed that we would assign those non-proprietary clones a new number at FPS rather than the European clonal number. They received their FPS numbers using the "next in order" rule. We may have a note on the plant description that the selection is "reported to be a certain French clone number". FPS cannot guarantee that such a selection is the official French clone number that it was formally associated with in France.

	Tamar 01
Source	Israel
Treatments	Heat treatment 62 days; requires disease elimination therapy prior to release to the public due to virus
Comments	This table grape selection was donated to UC Davis and the National Clonal Germplasm Repository-Davis in 1978 by R. Kimmelmann, Department of Horticulture, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel (USDA Plant Identification number 442854). Records maintained by Dr. Austin Goheen at Foundation Plant Services indicate that the word 'Tamar' means 'date' in Hebrew, suggesting that this selection is somehow related to Dattier. The original material tested positive for viruses at FPS in the late 1970's. It would require disease elimination therapy prior to release to the public.