Cardinal
Variety of Vine · Vitis vinifera
Early, large, red seeded table grape – a classic Mediterranean early variety.
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6🇺🇸 USA 1939
Taste & characteristics
Taste
firmmildcrispsweet
Profile
- Parentage
- Flame Tokay x Ribier (Alphonse Lavallée)
- Breeder
- E. Snyder & F. Harmon, USDA/California
- Pollination
- self-fertile
- Fruit weight
- 7 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Large, round, dark-red seeded berries; firm flesh, mildly sweet.
Growth
Vigorous, heat-loving, very early ripening.
Yield
Good yields as an early commercial table grape in the Mediterranean.
Notes
Prone to coulure; flavour rather neutral.
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