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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2000
Bruce D. Mowrey, Watsonville, CA (US);
Larry T. Kodama, Freedmon, CA (US);
JoAnne F. Coss, Salinas, CA (US);
Joseph I. Espejo, Jr., Watsonville, CA (US);
Thomas M. Sjulin, Aromas, CA (US);
Driscoll Strawberry Associates, Inc., Watsonville, CA (US);
Abstract
This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of strawberry named 'Sonora'. The present variety is similar to the varieties 'Commander', ‘San Juan’ and ‘Ana Maria’. The present variety is fully everbearing, and is further distinguished from ‘Commander’, ‘San Juan’ and ‘Ana Maria’, in particular, by its flat globose habit, strong interveinal blistering, weak leaf glossiness, rounded terminal leaflet shape of base and teeth, sparse petiole pubescence, dense to very dense stolon pubescence, a position of inflorescence above the foliage, larger calyx diameter relative to the corolla, a semi-erect attitude of the fruiting truss at first picking, predominantly conical fruit, very slight to slight differences between shapes of primary and secondary fruits, very narrow to narrow band without achenes, very weak unevenness of surface of the fruit, weak to medium glossiness of the fruit, spreading to reflexed pose of the calyx segments, even flesh color of the fruit, and absent to small hollow center size.