Sweet cherry cultivar named `Royalton`

USPP11107P · kind P · plant

Assignee

• Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Robert L. Andersen · Geneva, US
• Susan K. Brown · Geneva, US
• Roger D. Way · Stanley, US
• Kenneth G. Livermore · Geneva, US
• David E. Terry · Kirkland, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 1, 1997
• Grant date: Oct 19, 1999
• Expiry date: Apr 1, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of sweet cherry tree which produces large and firm fruit having rich, strong cherry flavor, crisp flesh and which contain large stones of round to round-conic shape. The fruit has exceptionally high levels of soluble solids at ripeness. A seeding of `NY1725`, the tree is particularly characterized as being self-unfertile, late coming into production, but which bears dark, sweet fruit that is resistant to water stress induced cracking. This vigorous tree is of upright branching habit, forms a tall pyramidal figure, and shows resistance to bacterial canker.