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Dame Nancy

  • Dame Nancy cherry varietyMatures mid-season shows intermediate cropping efficiency, has an upright growth habit and strong tree vigour.
  • Fruit size is large to extremely large, averaging 11.5 grams and 99.5% of fruit sampled had a diameter greater than 25 millimetres.
  • Fruit is kidney shaped.
  • Fruit skin colour is vermillion on a yellow ground colour.
  • The flesh of the fruit is white.
  • Eating quality of the fruit is fair to good (sugars 18%, acid 3.9).
  • The fruit are firm and slightly susceptible to cracking in an average rainfall year (2% cracks).
  • Fruit stalk length is 30–40mm.
  • Stone size is intermediate, 10–15 mm long.
  • The variety is self-fertile.