A short-day strawberry, for October planting and January to spring harvest in southwest Spain. Origin: Instituto Andaluz de Investigación y Formación Agraria y Pesquera, Asociación Española de Viveristas de Plantas de Fresa, Fresas Nuevos Materiales S.A., Oficina Española de Variedades Vegetales, Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria, and Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias, Spain, by J.M. López-Aranda, C. Soria, L. Miranda, J. F. Sánchez-Sevilla, J. Gálvez, R. Villalba, F. Romero, B. De Los Santos, J.J. Medina, J. Palacios, E. Bardón, A. Arjona, A. Refoyo, A. Martinez-Treceño, A. De Cal, P. Melgarejo, and R. Bartual. Camarosa × RB-67-35; crossed 1997; selected 1998; tested as 1-566. Tree: vigorous; very high early and total yield; globose to flat-globose; flowers even with foliage; resistance to leather rot (Phytophthora cactorum), verticillium wilt (Verticillium dahliae), powdery mildew (Sphaerotheca macularis sp. fragariae), and anthracnose (Colletotrichum acutatum) similar to Camarosa. Fruit: skin dark red; similar to Ventana and Camarosa; wedge shaped; firmness similar to Ventana and Medina; flesh medium red, hollow, tasty, pleasantly aromatic; achenes below surface; calyx firmly attached, same diameter as fruit; good shelf life similar to Camarosa.
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