Cornus mas 'Flava'

Our Variety Assessment

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

Flava is one of the most appealing yellow cornelian cherries for fresh eating. The early fruit is mild and develops a distinctive pineapple-like note, bringing real diversity to a collection. The shrub comes into bearing more slowly and crops less heavily than Jantarnyj, so it is best chosen for flavour rather than maximum yield.

Flava

Price range: 28,00 € through 45,00 €

Flava Cornelian cherry tree, an early yellow-fruited variety with mild, tasty fruit suitable for many uses.

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Maiden grafted tree – bare-root

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6 L potted plant with fruit buds

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SKU: 10848 Category: Cornelian cherry trees

Description

Flava Cornelian cherry tree (Cornus mas) produces yellow cornelian cherries with a very tasty, fairly mild flavour.

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

Flava ripens from early August and is among the earliest Cornelian cherry varieties. Maturity is staggered rather than all at once.

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.

Flava is one of the oldest Cornelian cherry varieties and is the best-known yellow-fruited form.

Its fruit is larger than that of Jantarnyj, but the tree comes into production later and is less productive.

We supply Flava 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

Very old yellow-fruited variety, known since the 17th century, probably from an old cultivated yellow-fruited form of Cornus mas.

Origin

Period of origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

Eating / keeping period

Use

Cooking, Fresh eating, Juice

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Self-fertility

Pollinator value

Good pollinizer

Origin and identity

Parentage

Old selection of Cornus mas, exact parents unknown

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Strong vigour, shrub with a broad, loose and open habit, medium productivity

Pollination

Compatible pollinating varieties

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

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Harvest calendar

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