Folfer
Folfer comes from INRA's Bordeaux cherry-breeding program; its name recalls the Grande Ferrade estate. It was one of six new cherries planted in France from 2002 and reaching market in 2007, and received a breeding award at SIFEL 2005.
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Origin · INRA Bordeaux-Aquitaine breeding program; the FER name element refers to the Grande Ferrade estate.
Released 2007
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Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- very sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
Folfer, Areko and Kordia are similarly good cherries for appearance, aroma and texture.
sensory study · Research Institute for Fruit Growing Pitești, central Romania; non-irrigated trial established 2013, three replications with three trees per variant. · 2021, 2022
Read the evidence
In a 2021–2022 Pitești trial, 18 trained judges rated seven appearance and eating attributes. Among the 11 foreign cultivars, Folfer, Areko and Kordia had the three highest reported composite means and shared the same Duncan-test letter group. Their totals combine appearance, taste, flavor, texture and stone size; they are not stand-alone overall-liking scores.
- Fruit tested
- Whole-fruit samples from the 2021–2022 field trial; ten typical fruits per cultivar presented on platters; harvest dates and maturity standards not reported.
- Varieties compared
- Folfer, Areko, Kordia
- Use studied
- Comparing multiple appearance and eating attributes within a specified cultivar trial.
- Published
- 2023
How to spot it
- Size
- large
- Appearance
- dark
Origin & family
Where Folfer began
Recorded origin
INRA Bordeaux-Aquitaine breeding program; the FER name element refers to the Grande Ferrade estate.
France
- Institution
- INRA, Bordeaux-Aquitaine
- Released
- 2007
Field notes
Original source notes
trait observations
- trait
- fruit description
- source url
- www.inrae.fr ↗
- observation
- INRA describes Folfer fruit as large, dark, firm, crisp and very sweet. This is the breeder’s descriptive account, separate from measured results of the Romanian trial.