Our Variety Assessment

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

Matador combines many of the qualities sought in a fruiting cornelian cherry: large fruit, plenty of juice and an enjoyable flavour. This French selection is versatile, working well fresh when fully ripe and in preserves or liqueurs. The fruit does not all ripen together, extending the season but preventing a single concentrated harvest.

Matador

Price range: 28,00 € through 45,00 €

Matador Cornelian cherry tree, a French variety with large dark red, juicy oval fruits, ripening gradually in early September.

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SKU: 7434 Category: Cornelian cherry trees

Description

Matador Cornelian cherry tree (Cornus mas) produces large, oval-shaped dark red cornelian cherries.

The fruits are very flavourful and juicy, making them suitable both for fresh eating and for preserves.

Matador ripens gradually from early September. The fruit can be kept for 3 to 4 weeks in cool storage.

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.

Matador is a French variety.

We supply Matador 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

Early form selected by Pépinières Minier in Angers, with fruits ripening in August.

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

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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At the same time

August 15-31

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