Our Variety Assessment

Its strengths, growing requirements and the conditions in which it performs best.

Mediva suits cooler regions with sufficiently cold winters, especially where spring frost is a concern. It is an excellent choice for gardeners who only want one apricot tree, as it is self-fertile, late flowering and produces juicy, aromatic fruit. Its main limitation is flavour development: the apricots need to ripen fully on the tree to show their best quality.

Mediva

Price range: 33,75 € through 64,50 €

Mediva apricot tree, a late-flowering self-fertile variety with aromatic bicoloured fruit, harvested in late July.

Choose your tree form

1 year old grafted tree – approx. 1–2 m

Half-standard – 1 to 1.5 m stem

Standard tree – 1.8 m stem and over

Prunus rootstock options

Montclar - mature height : 4 à 6m, suitable for very dry soil.

Myrobolan - mature height : 4 à 6m.

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SKU: 7039 Category: Apricot trees

Description

Mediva apricot tree produces oval, bicoloured apricots with a very aromatic flavour and good eating quality.

The fruit reaches around 14° Brix. For the best flavour, Mediva apricots should be left to reach full maturity, when their quality becomes far superior to standard commercial apricots.

Harvest takes place during the second half of July.

Mediva has good hardiness against brown rot, a disease that can damage apricot blossom as severely as frost.

The variety is self-fertile. Flowering is late and abundant, which gives it useful advantages in areas exposed to spring frosts.

Mediva is a recent variety with strong production potential in humid areas and regions where spring frosts are a risk.

We supply Mediva as a maiden apricot tree, grafted on Myrobolan for better adaptation to moist soils, or on Montclar for drier soils depending on availability.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

French variety from the Carmingo® range, bred by NEWCOT and marketed by International Plant Selection. Exact date and place of breeding not found; self-fertile mid-season variety, ripening about 3 days before Bergeron.

Origin

Period of origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

Eating / keeping period

1 week