Early season cultivar with very early color development with exceptionally high fruit anthocyanin content. Origin: Rutgers University, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, Chatsworth, NJ by N. Vorsa and J. Johnson-Cicalese. Stevens × NJS98-37 (Franklin × Ben Lear) crossed 1995; selected 2000; introd. 2010. USPP 22,541; 6 Mar. 2012. Tree: Fruit: large, over 2 g in NJ; ovate to very widely elliptic to occasionally elliptical, with rounded to moderately oblique pedicle end; total TAcy is typically 3 to 7 times greater than Stevens; waxy bloom around calyx, otherwise with slight scattered waxy bloom on lower (calyx) half. Plant stolons and uprights moderately coarse; vigorous stolon production.
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