PRUNUS armeniaca 'PRECOCE DE SAUMUR'

Apricot 'Precoce de Saumur'

PRUNUS armeniaca 'PRECOCE DE SAUMUR'

Apricot 'Precoce de Saumur'

  • Maintenance advice : In August, after harvesting, cut off any incumbent branches, to ventilate and maintain a harmonious and balanced form. At the end of winter, cut down any dead wood.
  • Botanical/Horticultural origin : Horticultural origin : found in Saumur (FR) around 1960
  • Use group : Fruit Trees
  • Height at 10 years : 4 m
  • Width at 10 years : 3 m
  • Growth : Medium
  • Fragrance : No
  • Exposure : Full sun
  • Evergreen/Deciduous : Deciduous
  • Shape : tree like
  • Colour of leaves : Green
  • Colour of flowers : White/pink
  • Soil type : Garden soil
  • Uses : Fruit tree
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Self-fertilizing. Mature end of June to mid July. Medium to large apricots, tender and perfumed, not very juicy. Naturally occurring seedling, discovered in Saumur (West Loire Valley) in the sixties : after a wall had been destroyed, this tree grew spontaneously on the embankment. A neighbour replanted it in his garden, visible from the road. Its fertility was soon noticed by nurserymen from Doué-la-Fontaine, and so then became rapidly widespread throughout the region. The flowers and young apricots are resistant up to -3°c temperatures.