Our Variety Assessment

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

Burlat suits most fruit gardens in a sunny position protected from spring frost. We recommend it to growers wanting to begin the season with large, juicy and flavoursome cherries. Earliness is its main strength. The fruit has a short storage life, can crack after rain and requires a compatible pollinator.

Burlat

Price range: 26,50 € through 64,50 €

Burlat is a bright red sweet cherry, which ripens in late May / early June.

Choose your tree form

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

Half-standard – 1 to 1.5 m stem

Low-stem tree – approx. 60 cm stem

Standard tree – 1.8 m stem and over

Cherry rootstock options

Colt – approx. 4.5 m mature height

GiselA 5 – approx. 2.5 m mature height

GiselA 6 – approx. 3.5 m mature height

Mazzard – approx. 8 m mature height

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SKU: 4403 Category: Cherry trees

Description

Burlat is a bright red sweet cherry, with dark red flesh. The cherries are large, and ripen very early in the season – usually in late May / early June.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

French variety discovered in 1915 by Léonard Burlat in Lyon, grafted and then distributed from Loire-sur-Rhône and Pierre-Bénite, now a benchmark early variety.

Origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

Eating / keeping period

1-3 days

Use

Fresh eating