Bethel Grove Gardens · Variety reference
Kurume Kuromitsu
Biological type: Common (persistent)
Pollination: Unknown
Cutting reference$20.00
One-gallon reference$55.00
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
- Bifera
- Main crop ripening
- Average
- Flavor profile
- Honey
- Fruit size
- Large (60–100 g)
- Skin color
- Very dark red-black
- Pulp color
- Bright red
- Hardiness / climate notes
- Zone 8B in Japanese notes; slower to come into bearing (3–4 yrs)
Reported growth habit: Unknown
Origins & names
- Geographic origin
- Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture — selected from 630 cross seedlings
- Possible origin
- Japan
- Synonyms / alternate names
- 久留米くろみつ; Kurume Black Honey; TM 5540710
- Same or nearly the same
- Official Kurume series #1 of 4
- Popular close brother
- Kurume Kuroama
- Known parentage
- Kurume breeding program (Inoue / local crosses)
- Reference year
- 2012
- First year (estimate)
- Japanese registered selection (trademark 5540710)
- What the year means
- Official release or first wide circulation
Evidence & reference values
- Confidence
- Medium — breeder notes / national commercial lists / collector forums
- Key sources
- fig7.net; OurFigs Kurume threads; Fig Fanatic; shuiguobang
- Condit page
- Unknown / not recorded
- Notes
- Flat-oval, honey-sweet 17–18 °Brix, juicy. Mid-season. Trees of Joy has sold wood in the US.
- Commonality
- Rare
- Market availability
- FigBid scarce
Imported catalog record; not individually reviewed. Separate names do not necessarily establish distinct genotypes.