| Cultivar Name: |
Blackamber
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| Type |
Plum/prune |
| Synonyms |
Black Amber
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| Patent |
Not Patented
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| Parentage |
Friar x Queen Rosa
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| Usage |
Scion
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| Products |
Fresh Market
Shipping
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| Chill Requirement |
400 chill hours required
|
| Yield |
High
|
| Flesh Color |
Yellow
|
| Ripening time |
+1
weeks relative to
Santa Rosa
|
| Self Compatible |
No - Not Self Compatible
|
| Pollinators |
Amber and Catalina have been used as pollinators, also Ambra, Autumn Rosa, Durado, El Dorado, Queen Rosa, and Red Rosa.
|
| Description |
Originated in Fresno, California. Selected by J.H. Weinberger in cooperation with the USDA and University of California at Kearney Hort. Field Station, Parlier, CA. Introd. in 1980 by D.W. Ramming.
Fruit is oblate with dark purple to black skin at full maturity and a light yellow with some diffusion of red from skin when overripe. Good quality; firm; small pit; resembles Firar. Trees have normal vigor, flowers are self-infertile, pollenizer required, blooms with and is intercompatible with Friar. Trees grow rapidly and bears heavy crops. |
| References |
- The Brooks and Olmo Register of Fruit & Nut Varieties. Third Edition. 1997. ASHS Press, Alexandria, Virginia.
- Fruit, Berry and Nut Inventory. Third Edition. 2001. Seed Savers Exchange, Inc.
- Burchell Nursery Fruit and Nut Tree Varieties. Link
- Dave Wilson Nursery. Link
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