Presenta

This variety is the latest trend for consumers, because the fruit is quite firm (to the bite) and has a sweet flavour, even when fully ripe.

Parents:

Ortenauer x President

Growth:

medium strong loose growth with strong drooping fruit wood

Blossom:

early, medium early

Ripeness:

very late, end September/mid October, 8–10 days after Elena

Appearance:

medium-sized, luminious blue, strong fragrance, pruinose

Quality:

medium juiciness, loosens easily from the stone, yellow fruit pulp

Taste:

good, similar to house plum, but with sparse sourishness

Crop yield:

early onsetting, high and regular,  thinning is recommended

Special notes:

late, slow-growing, healthy variety with rain- and frost-resistant  blossoms as well as durable and transportable fruit, Sharka (plum pox virus)-resistant, rain shortly before or during the ripening time may partially effect the cracking of the fruit – slackens with increasing age of the trees