U.S. Patent (PP36334)
Description: Ember® is named for its bright red external fruit color. It has excellent overall fruit quality, in particular the unusual combination of a high degree of rain resistance combined with excellent sweetness and flavor similar to Florida Medallion™. It has an excellent overall disease resistance package. In particular, this cultivar is less susceptible to Neopestalotiopsis spp. than other current varieties from the UF program, particularly with regard to disease on the fruit. It has excellent early yields and is well-suited to planting during the early half of the planting window in Florida, from Oct 1 to Oct 15. This variety is best suited to open-field production and has not yielded as well in high-tunnel environments.
License Availability: FFSP has exclusively licensed the following entity for the ‘Florida Ember’ Strawberry variety: Florida Strawberry Patent Service Corporation, http://flastrawberry.com/