Aprimira®

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• Picking season: Early
• Self-fertility: Self-fertile
• Fruit colour: Yellow

Aprimira is a new hybrid mirabelle - apricot. The fruits are very sweet, and relatively large by the standards of mirabelles - more like small apricots in size. However in most other respects the mirabelle side of the partnership is more prominent, and Aprimira is best considered as a large pink / yellow-flushed mirabelle.

The blossom is plain white, and appears at about the same time as the leaves.

The fruits ripen gradually in early to mid-August, at about the same time as Victoria plums, and can be picked fresh from the tree over an extended period. The fruits will also keep fresh in a fridge for about a week - longer than most dessert plums.

The flavour is especially sweet and the stone falls away cleanly from the flesh.

Prunus x insititia

Aprimira inter-specific trees for sale

• 1-year maiden bare-root tree 24.45€
  Wavit rootstock
  Large size (3m-4m after 10 years)
  

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Next deliveries

Deliveries resume December 2020

How to grow

Aprimira is self-fertile, and flowers very early in the spring, making it a useful pollinator for other very early flowering plum species, including pluots, cherry plums and other mirabelles.

History

Aprimira was developed at the Geisenheim research station in Germany from a Mirabelle von Herrenhausen, and released in 1994.

Mirabelles and apricots are closely related members of the Prunus family, and many of these varieties will naturally cross-pollinate each other so there is great scope for interesting hybrids.

Aprimira characteristics

• Picking seasonEarly
• CroppingGood
• Keeping1 week
• Fruit persistenceRipens over a period
• Useful forEating freshCulinaryDual purpose
• Gardening skillAverage
• Self-fertilitySelf-fertile
• Flowering group2
• Climate typeTemperate climatesWarm climates
• Country of originGermany
• Period of origin1950 - 1999
• Fruit colourYellow
• Fruit sizeLarge