SPC243
SPC243 is a sweet cherry, bred at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Sweetheart is a known parent. Its fruit is orange-red on a yellow ground colour, medium number of light coloured medium sized dots, moderate prominence of suture, low susceptibility to rain-induced cracking.
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Origin · Summerland, British Columbia
Released 2015
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Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- medium sweetness
scope: CFIA variety description; source-specific descriptor levels.
active.inspection.gc.ca ↗Context & source
Named CFIA variety description, exact FRUIT FLESH field. Descriptor levels belong to this source report; no calibrated intensity, consumer panel or universal growing-condition claim is inferred.
Original record: yellow, firm, low to medium acidity, medium sweetness, very juicy
- /details/observations/0/value/1/context
- CFIA technical variety examination; trial context retained in linked source
- /interpretation/context
- scope: CFIA variety description; source-specific descriptor levels.
- Acidity
- low to medium acidity
scope: CFIA variety description; source-specific descriptor levels.
active.inspection.gc.ca ↗Context & source
Named CFIA variety description, exact FRUIT FLESH field. Descriptor levels belong to this source report; no calibrated intensity, consumer panel or universal growing-condition claim is inferred.
Original record: yellow, firm, low to medium acidity, medium sweetness, very juicy
- /details/observations/0/value/1/context
- CFIA technical variety examination; trial context retained in linked source
- /interpretation/context
- scope: CFIA variety description; source-specific descriptor levels.
- Firmness
- firm
scope: CFIA variety description; source-specific descriptor levels.
active.inspection.gc.ca ↗Context & source
Named CFIA variety description, exact FRUIT FLESH field. Descriptor levels belong to this source report; no calibrated intensity, consumer panel or universal growing-condition claim is inferred.
Original record: yellow, firm, low to medium acidity, medium sweetness, very juicy
- /details/observations/0/value/1/context
- CFIA technical variety examination; trial context retained in linked source
- /interpretation/context
- scope: CFIA variety description; source-specific descriptor levels.
firmcontext: APS register 51 description; not a diagnostic identification test
journals.ashs.org ↗Context & source
- /details/observations/0/value/4/context
- APS register 51 description; not a diagnostic identification test
- Juiciness
- very juicy
scope: CFIA variety description; source-specific descriptor levels.
active.inspection.gc.ca ↗Context & source
Named CFIA variety description, exact FRUIT FLESH field. Descriptor levels belong to this source report; no calibrated intensity, consumer panel or universal growing-condition claim is inferred.
Original record: yellow, firm, low to medium acidity, medium sweetness, very juicy
- /details/observations/0/value/1/context
- CFIA technical variety examination; trial context retained in linked source
- /interpretation/context
- scope: CFIA variety description; source-specific descriptor levels.
How to spot it
- Skin
- orange-red on a yellow ground colour, medium number of light coloured medium sized dots, moderate prominence of suture, low susceptibility to rain-induced cracking
context: CFIA technical variety examination; trial context retained in linked source
active.inspection.gc.ca ↗Context & source
- /details/observations/0/value/0/context
- CFIA technical variety examination; trial context retained in linked source
- Flesh
- Flesh colouryellow
scope: CFIA variety description; source-specific descriptor levels.
active.inspection.gc.ca ↗Context & source
Named CFIA variety description, exact FRUIT FLESH field. Descriptor levels belong to this source report; no calibrated intensity, consumer panel or universal growing-condition claim is inferred.
Original record: yellow, firm, low to medium acidity, medium sweetness, very juicy
- /details/observations/0/value/1/context
- CFIA technical variety examination; trial context retained in linked source
- /interpretation/context
- scope: CFIA variety description; source-specific descriptor levels.
- Size
- Fruit diameter24.6 mmjournals.ashs.org ↗
Context & source
Literal source-reported measurement for this named cultivar entry. The input numeric string is preserved unchanged; source sampling and growing conditions remain as stated in the citation.
- /details/observations/0/value/3/context
- APS register 51
- /details/observations/0/value/3/value/measurement context
- cultivar register description; sample size and growing conditions not supplied here
- Appearance
- Juice colourno colour
scope: CFIA variety description; source-specific descriptor levels.
active.inspection.gc.ca ↗Context & source
Named CFIA variety description, exact FRUIT JUICE field. Descriptor levels belong to this source report; no calibrated intensity, consumer panel or universal growing-condition claim is inferred.
- /details/observations/0/value/2/context
- CFIA technical variety examination; trial context retained in linked source
- /interpretation/context
- scope: CFIA variety description; source-specific descriptor levels.
Origin & family
Where SPC243 began
Recorded origin
Summerland, British Columbia
Canada
- Institution
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
- Crossed
- 1982
- Selected
- 1995
- Released
- 2015
SPC243’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
SPC243
Summerland, British Columbia, Canada
Sweetheart → SPC243Parent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
descriptor observations
- trait
- skin color
- value
- orange-red on a yellow ground colour, medium number of light coloured medium sized dots, moderate prominence of suture, low susceptibility to rain-induced cracking
- context
- CFIA technical variety examination; trial context retained in linked source
- source url
- active.inspection.gc.ca ↗
- trait
- flesh description
- value
- yellow, firm, low to medium acidity, medium sweetness, very juicy
- context
- CFIA technical variety examination; trial context retained in linked source
- source url
- active.inspection.gc.ca ↗
- trait
- juice color
- value
- no colour
- context
- CFIA technical variety examination; trial context retained in linked source
- source url
- active.inspection.gc.ca ↗
- trait
- fruit diameter mm
- value
- reported
- 24.6
- measurement context
- cultivar register description; sample size and growing conditions not supplied here
- context
- APS register 51
- source url
- journals.ashs.org ↗
- trait
- reported fruit traits
- value
- firm
- context
- APS register 51 description; not a diagnostic identification test
- source url
- journals.ashs.org ↗