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Cowart
Muscadine
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Sweet
- Size
- Medium (~8.7g, ~24mm)
- Shape
- Round
- Flavor
- Sweet and good, classic muscadine flavor
- Texture
- Tough black skin; wet stem scar that tends to tear when picked
- Ripening window
- Midseason (even ripening)
- Best uses
- Home fresh eating, juice/wine; not ideal for commercial fresh market due to the wet scar
- Pollination
- Self-fertile; historically also used as a pollenizer for other varieties in large plantings
- Tree size
- Medium vigor vine
- Notes
- UGA-released 1968 (Higgins x Ga. 28 cross). Relatively low yield for a self-fertile variety (~40% of full crop). Slight susceptibility to leaf disease and berry rot, nothing serious.