Our Variety Assessment

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

Despite its suggestive name, Aprimira has no apricot ancestry. It arose from Mirabelle von Herrenhausen and an unidentified cultivated plum. Its orange-yellow fruit develops a red cheek in the sun and has firm, exceptionally sweet, aromatic flesh reminiscent of apricot. Self-fertile, healthy and productive, it offers a long picking window and a stone that separates readily from the flesh.

Aprimira

Price range: 29,75 € through 64,50 €

Aprimira is a sweet self-fertile mirabelle, good for eating fresh or cooking with.

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SKU: 13836 Category: Pluots (Prunus hybrids)

Description

Aprimira is a mirabelle or hybrid mirahelle / plum. The fruits are sweet, and relatively large by the standards of mirabelles – more like small plums in size.

The stone falls away cleanly from the flesh, which makes it easier to use the fruits for cooking with.

The dusky red and orange fruits ripen gradually throughout August, at about the same time as Victoria plums, and can be picked from the tree over an extended period. They will also keep fresh in a fridge for about a week – longer than most dessert plums.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Geisenheim, Germany, found in 1994 by Prof. Helmut Jacob.

Origin

Period of origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Eating / keeping period

Use

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Self-fertility

Pollinator value

Origin and identity

Parentage

Mirabelle von Herrenhausen × unknown plum, apricot origin now doubtful

Synonyms

Aprimira®

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Fairly productive, medium vigour, very early and long flowering

Quince compatibility

Aprimira®

Pollination and fertility

Alleles

Fairly productive, medium vigour, very early and long flowering

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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Additional variety information for Aprimira is provided in partnership with Orange Pippin.