Bethel Grove Gardens · Variety reference
Japanese Purple Fruit
Biological type: Common (persistent)
Pollination: Unknown
Cutting reference$15.00
One-gallon reference$45.00
Reference estimates, not sale offers or mature-tree appraisals. Price evidence date not recorded.
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Fruit & growing traits
- Biological type
- Common (persistent)
- Crop habit
- Unifera (main crop)
- Main crop ripening
- Early
- Flavor profile
- Sugar-Berry
- Fruit size
- Medium (avg 58 g)
- Skin color
- Deep purple with bloom
- Pulp color
- Red
- Hardiness / climate notes
- Unknown / not recorded
Reported growth habit: Unknown
Origins & names
- Geographic origin
- Fukushima, Japan — trialled in China 1997
- Possible origin
- Japan
- Synonyms / alternate names
- Fukushima Purple; 日本紫果
- Same or nearly the same
- Unknown / not recorded
- Popular close brother
- Unknown / not recorded
- Known parentage
- Unknown / not recorded
- Reference year
- 1997
- First year (estimate)
- Introduced to China 1997
- What the year means
- First named or first widely circulated
Evidence & reference values
- Confidence
- Medium — nursery / forum / regional commercial sources
- Key sources
- Baidu Baike excellent-varieties table
- Condit page
- Unknown / not recorded
- Notes
- Japanese purple trialled in China. Summer from late June.
- Commonality
- Rare
- Market availability
- Estimate only
Imported catalog record; not individually reviewed. Separate names do not necessarily establish distinct genotypes.