Blackberryvariety
BRS Xingu
BRS Xingu is a blackberry released in 2015 that, in trials, ripened 10-20 days after Brazos and held its color better after harvest.
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Taste & texture
- Used for
- fruit use not specified in this source
How to spot it
- Skin
- less postharvest color reversion
Harvest & storage
- Harvest
- 10–20 days after Brazos
Field notes
Original source notes
embrapa breeding observations
- food use
- fruit use not specified in this source
- release events
- year
- 2015
- date basis
- Source explicitly labels launch/release; not publication year.
- event type
- commercial release
- country code
- Brazil
- name
- BRS Xingu
- original summary
- A blackberry released in 2015 and compared with Brazos in Embrapa trials. It generally ripened 10–20 days after Brazos in the reported context, with less postharvest color reversion; this relative timing is not a universal harvest calendar.
- breeding institution
- Embrapa Clima Temperado