Karaka Black
Variety of Blackberry · Rubus fruticosus
New Zealand variety famed for very long, glossy berries and an extended harvest.
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4🇳🇿 New Zealand 1996
Taste & characteristics
Taste
tartsweetaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Neuseeländische Kreuzung (u.a. Aurora x Comanche-Linien)
- Pollination
- self-fertile
- Fruit weight
- 10 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Very large, elongated, glossy-black berries with good sweet-tart flavour; very attractive and well-storing.
Growth
Trailing, vigorous, thorny.
Yield
High yields over an unusually long picking season.
Notes
Early-starting, very long harvest; popular commercially for fresh market.
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