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Darlene
Muscadine
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Sweet
- Size
- Large (~16.3g, ~29mm)
- Shape
- Round
- Flavor
- Pretty good flavor and fruit quality
- Texture
- Pink/bronze skin, sometimes blotchy; mostly wet scar (only ~20% dry)
- Ripening window
- Midseason (even ripening)
- Best uses
- Home fresh eating; not recommended commercially due to inconsistent yield and scar/marketing issues
- Pollination
- Female flowers - needs a self-fertile pollinator nearby (e.g. Cowart)
- Tree size
- High vigor vine
- Notes
- Patented by Ison's Nursery, 1988 (US Plant Patent #7314); related to the 'Carlos' cultivar. Inconsistent/low yield (~40% of full crop).