Our Variety Assessment

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

Alosza is an excellent choice for starting the cornelian cherry season particularly early. Its yellow fruit is mild and pleasant enough for fresh eating, while remaining useful for preserves and syrups. The hardy shrub fits easily into an edible hedge. It is not selected for exceptionally large fruit, but its earliness makes it genuinely distinctive.

Alosza

Price range: 28,00 € through 45,00 €

Alosza Cornelian cherry tree, an early Ukrainian yellow variety with sweet, mild fruit ripening from early August.

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SKU: 3595 Category: Cornelian cherry trees

Description

Alosza Cornelian cherry tree (Cornus mas) produces oval yellow cornelian cherries with a very tasty, mild and sweet flavour.

The fruit has a sugar level of around 12%, acidity of 1.4%, and is rich in vitamin C.

Alosza is suitable for a wide range of uses, from fresh eating to processing.

This variety ripens from early August and is among the earliest Cornelian cherries. Maturity is fairly even on the tree.

The tree is naturally resistant to diseases and crops very regularly from year to year.

Budbreak and flowering occur very early, but the flowers have excellent frost resistance.

Alosza is a very early Ukrainian variety.

We supply Alosza as a grafted Cornelian cherry tree on seedling rootstock, grown in pot as a one-year plant, with an average height of around 1.4 m.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Ukrainian yellow-fruited variety, discovered in 1996 at Murovani Kurylyvtsi, in Vinnytsia Oblast, then propagated at the National Botanical Garden of Kyiv.

Origin

Period of origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

Eating / keeping period

1 week

Use

Cooking, Fresh eating, Juice

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Self-fertility

Pollinator value

Origin and identity

Parentage

Selection of Cornus mas, exact parents unknown

Synonyms

Alyosha, Alosza, Alesha

Pollination

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For reliable fruit set, plant at least one variety with a compatible flowering period nearby. Flowering period: 1 - very early.

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