Sour cherry cultivar named `Surefire`

USPP11108P · 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: Jun 30, 1997
• Grant date: Oct 26, 1999
• Expiry date: Jun 30, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

Abstract

A new distinctive cultivar of sour cherry (Prunus cersus) which is exceptional in combining 1) high quality, totally red fruit, 2) a tree habit that has fewer lateral and secondary lateral branches than many other cultivars and which facilitates ease of hand harvesting, and 3) having a unique late season anthesis of its flowers so that they evade spring frost damage. The cultivar is named `Surefire` and was tested as NY 12716.