Gooseberry Nekrasovsky

Mid-season ripening variety, developed at the All-Russian Research Institute of Fruit Crop Selection from crossing the varieties Afrikanczyk x Kolobok. Author: O.V. Kurashev. Submitted for state testing in 2008.

Medium-height, medium-spreading bush. Shoots are thick, straight, green, and hairless. Thorns on shoots are medium in number, located only in the lower part of the shoot. Thorns are medium length, medium thickness, weak, solitary, oriented perpendicularly to the shoot or slightly downward, light-colored.

Leaves are medium-sized, green, hairless. Leaf blade is hairless, glossy, soft, smooth, convex. Leaf margins are blunt, short, not curled. Leaves are three-lobed with deep notches. Leaf base is straight. Leaf tips are blunt.

Flowers are large, pale in color. Sepals are medium length and width, pale in color, hairless on the outer side, curled upward. Ovule is hairless, oval, with weakly expressed ridges.

Berries are medium to large (average weight 3.4 g, maximum 7.0 g), round-oval, dark red, nearly black, one-seeded, hairless, with a waxy coating, many seeds, medium-thick skin. Flavor is sour-sweet (4.7 points), with a plum-like taste, berries are of universal use. Receptacle is half-open. Berry stem is medium length, brown-green or red, thin. Chemical composition: total sugars — 11.8%, titratable acidity — 2.3%, ascorbic acid — 40.0 mg/100 g.

Winter-hardy variety (however, in some years, freezing may occur in vegetative and mixed buds in the upper part of the shoot), moderately drought-tolerant, average yield 7.0–14.0 t/ha, characterized by high self-fertility and resistance to American powdery mildew.

Advantages of the variety: resistance to sphaceloma, high fruit flavor quality, weak thorniness.

Disadvantages of the variety: freezing in severe winters, moderate leaf spot disease.