Aurora
Variety of Cultivated blueberry · Vaccinium corymbosum
The latest modern commercial variety, stretching the harvest furthest into autumn.
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1🇺🇸 USA 2004
Taste & characteristics
Taste
firmtartsweet
Profile
- Parentage
- G-751 x G-224 (MSU)
- Breeder
- Michigan State University
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
- Fruit weight
- 1.8 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Large, very firm, light-blue berries with good, slightly tart flavour.
Growth
Upright, vigorous bush of 1.3-1.6 m.
Yield
High yield; extremely late ripening.
Notes
Firm berries and good keeping quality make it ideal for the late commercial season.
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