Early Black
Variety of Cranberry · Vaccinium macrocarpon
Old New England cultivar with small, almost blackish-red, early-ripening berries.
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1🇺🇸 USA 1852
Taste & characteristics
Taste
sourtart
Profile
- Parentage
- Wildselektion Massachusetts
- Breeder
- Cyrus Cahoon (Harwich, Massachusetts)
- Fruit weight
- 1 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Small to medium, dark-red to blackish-red berries with deep colour.
Growth
Historic Cape Cod selection, for decades a leading cultivar in the eastern USA.
Yield
Modest yield, very early ripening; hardy against early frosts.
Notes
Together with Howes one of the two classic Massachusetts cultivars.
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