Korona

Cultivator: Institute for Propagation of horticulture plants in Wageningen, 1972.

Gained out of a cross between Tamella and Induka.

Introduced: 1978.

Cultivating rights requested: 1977.

Trading under license.

Korona is an attractive type with a high productivity and big, good tasting fruit.

Growth: Rather open plants, with dark green, and bowl shaped leafs.

Flowering: Middle late, strong flowering flowers with well developed anthers.

Productivity: Very good.

Shape: Big fruit, pretty dark coloured red strawberries. Uniform in shape and colour.

Fruit quality: Strong, juicy and good tasting fruit with red pulp.

Impossible or very difficult to pick these strawberries without calyx.

Diseases and damages: Moderately prone to fruit rot, little prone to susceptible to wilt, red root rot and mildew. Ripening at about the same time as Sivetta.

Suited for fresh consumption.