Our Variety Assessment

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

Précoce de Saumur suits temperate and relatively cool regions when planted in a sunny, sheltered position. We recommend it to gardeners seeking a very early crop from a single tree. It is self-fertile, productive and bears fine, melting, sweet and highly fragrant fruit from early summer. The flesh is less juicy than that of some other apricot varieties.

Precoce de Saumur

Price range: 33,75 € through 64,50 €

Precoce de Saumur is an early-season apricot with good cold-hardiness.

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.

Pumi-Select - mature height : 3m.

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SKU: 4230 Category: Apricot trees

Description

As the name suggests, this is an early-season apricot, originating from the region around Saumur in the Loire valley.

The apricots ripen early around the end of June or early July. The fruits are juicy with a pleasant flavour, and a yellow flesh.

The fruits are excellent for eating fresh, and also for use in typical French patisserie desserts.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

French variety from a spontaneous seedling discovered in Saumur, in the Loire Valley, in the 1960s, then quickly distributed by nurseries in Doué-la-Fontaine.

Origin

Period of origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

Eating / keeping period

1 week