Blue Velvet
6Taste & characteristics
Taste
Profile
- Fruit weight
- 0.6 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Dark blue bloomed, roundish-oval small fruit 1.5 cm long, weight 0.60 g, with light hairs at the tip. Slightly tart in flavour.
Growth
Compact shrub 1 m tall with bluish-bloomed leaves.
Notes
Self-sterile, requires a pollination partner. At the University of Saskatchewan it was crossed with Blue Belle, giving rise to Tundra, Borealis and the Indigo series.
Care
Site: Self-sterile โ without a second, genetically different bush nearby there will be no crop. Plan a partner with overlapping bloom from the start. Care: Compact growth of about 1 m, so it also suits small spaces and containers.
Site, soil, hardiness and growth follow the species Kamchatka honeysuckle unless the variety states otherwise. Will it grow where you live? โ Check your site on the species page
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