Description

• Harvest: Early
• Description: Semi-freestone, medium to large fruit
• Skin: Dark red to dark purple-red
• Flesh: Dark red to dark purple
• Pollination: Rainier, Stella, Van and Bing
• Flowering Group: 1
• Taste: Medium firm flesh. Fine textured and less acid than that of most early cultivars
• Uses: Eating
• Background: Early Burlat is the commercial synonym for a cultivar introduced from Morocco in 1936. Released for propagation by the U. S. Department of Agriculture in 1961. First fruited in the USA at the U. S. Plant Introduction Station, Chico, California, in 1948. Important commercially in North America. It is susceptible to cracking and also requires careful handling from harvesting onwards