A fully everbearing cultivar with large, glossy, red fruit having whitish flesh, and adapted to the central coastal area of California. Origin: Driscoll Strawberry Associates, Inc., Watsonville, Calif., by Thomas M. Sjulin, Joseph T. DeRuse, and Bruce D. Mowrey. Marathon × 38A237; selected in 1999 in Kent, England; patented 2004. USPP 15,308. Tree: flat; globose; weak to medium vigor; inflorescences level with foliage; fruit trusses prostrate at harvest; moderately resistant to stress from high soil pH; moderately resistant to moderately susceptible to botrytis fruit rot; moderately susceptible to high soil salinity, two-spotted spider mite, powdery mildew, and verticillium wilt; susceptible to western tarnished plant bug. Fruit: cordate; very glossy; red exterior and whitish flesh; medium firmness; small to medium central hollow; very sweet; weakly acidic; fine textured; achenes inserted level with skin surface and the band without achenes is very narrow.
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