The Folia stone fruit library
All 130+ stone fruit cultivars we track, in one place.
Every peach, nectarine, plum, cherry, and apricot in our Stonefruit Crop Intelligence Library. This is the catalogue on its own, showing what each cultivar is for, how hardy and disease-resistant it is, its chill need, and how it grows. To see how any of them fits a specific property, with climate, chill, spring-frost and brown-rot pressure, and the tradeoffs for your ground, start with your address.
Allstar
A peach nectarine cultivar.
Arctic Pride
white nectarine, excellent sub-acid flavor
AU-Roadside
Auburn release
AU-Rosa
Auburn release bred for the humid Southeast
Autumn Star
late, performance variable
Avalon
productive, large
Balaton
Hungarian Morello type
Beauty
early ripening
Benton
A sweet cherry cultivar.
Big Red
very late, very firm, high spot, not productive every year
Bing
the benchmark dark sweet cherry
Black Gold
Cornell release, cold-hardy, self-fertile, crack-tolerant
Black Tartarian
A sweet cherry cultivar.
Blue Damson
small tart Damson for jam and preserves
Bluefree
late blue freestone with some black-knot resistance
Blushingstar
A peach nectarine cultivar.
Bounty
season standard for size and flavor
Brooks
large late self-fertile prune
Burbank
classic Burbank introduction
Burlat
very early European standard
Byrongold
USDA Byron yellow plum
Carmine Jewel
earliest Romance-series dwarf bush
Castleton
out-yields Stanley
Chelan
A sweet cherry cultivar.
Chinese
aka Mormon
Chinook
A sweet cherry cultivar.
Contender
cold-hardy bud, low bacterial spot, late bloom: the Mid-Atlantic peach to beat Bloom: NC State / Dave Wilson: frost-tolerant late-blooming buds
Coral Champagne
California early-mid
Coralstar
best in its season for size+quality
Cresthaven
performance varies with nursery source and temperature
Cristalina
A sweet cherry cultivar.
Danube
Erdi Botermo
Desiree
Rutgers NJAES release
Early Golden
very early (10 days before Shiro)
Easternglo
skin disorder if over-mature Nectarine (fuzzless): carries the brown-rot modifier
Elephant Heart
red-fleshed late Japanese plum
Emperor Francis
A sweet cherry cultivar.
Empress
large late blue prune
English Morello
late bloomer that dodges spring frost
Evans Bali
Alberta selection
Fantasia
large, attractive, high-yielding
Fayette
old favorite but high bacterial spot
Flame Prince
A peach nectarine cultivar.
Flamin Fury PF5B
challenging to size
Flavorcrest
high bacterial spot susceptibility
French Petite
Petite d'Agen
GaLa
A peach nectarine cultivar.
Glenglo
A peach nectarine cultivar.
Gloria
the LATEST blooming variety in Rutgers tests (sourced)
Goldcot
Michigan, cold-hardy, late-blooming, tangy
Goldrich
winter-injury resistant fruit but flowers early and needs a pollinizer (not Perfection)
Green Gage
Reine Claude
Harcot
Canadian
Harglow
very late-blooming Canadian (Harrow)
Hargrand
Harrow
Harlayne
very hardy at Harrow
Harogem
Harrow
Harrow Dawn
Harrow (Ontario) program
Hedelfingen
old reliable, some crack tolerance, productive
Honeyblaze
very firm, sub-acid
Hudson
very late, firm, Cornell
Italian Prune
Fellenberg
John Boy
all-around NJ commercial standard in its season
Juliet
U
July Prince
A peach nectarine cultivar.
Kenmore
a more productive Stanley with some black-knot resistance and bacterial-spot resistance
Kordia
European late dark cherry, some crack tolerance, good firmness
Lambert
A sweet cherry cultivar.
Lapins
self-fertile Van x Newstar
Loring
classic
Madison
cold-hardy, excellent flavor
Mayfire
early nectarine Nectarine (fuzzless): carries the brown-rot modifier
Messina
A peach nectarine cultivar.
Meteor
very cold hardy (to -40F)
Methley
self-fertile anchor
Mirabelle
Mirabelle de Metz
Montmorency
America's #1 tart cherry
Moongold
Minnesota-hardy
Moorpark
heirloom (a Jefferson favorite)
Mount Royal
Canadian
Napoleon
A sweet cherry cultivar.
North Star
U
Ozark Premier
large fruit
Perfection
large fruit but requires cross-pollination and blooms early
President
the ONE edible plum considered highly black-knot resistant
Puget Gold
PNW-bred
Rainier
the premium blush cherry
Raritan Rose
old NJ favorite
Redgold
widely planted yellow freestone nectarine Nectarine (fuzzless): carries the brown-rot modifier
Redhaven
the yellow-peach ripening-season standard
Regina
German, very late, the most crack-tolerant common cultivar and canker-tolerant: the strongest humid-East sweet cherry candidate
Rich May
A peach nectarine cultivar.
Rival
flowers early and may not overlap later cultivars
Romeo
Romance series dwarf bush
Ruby Prince
A peach nectarine cultivar.
Sam
A sweet cherry cultivar.
Santa Rosa
the classic
Santina
A sweet cherry cultivar.
Satsuma
blood plum
Scarlet Pearl
A peach nectarine cultivar.
Schneiders
aka 0900 Ziraat
Seneca
large dessert European plum with some black-knot resistance
Sentry
A peach nectarine cultivar.
Shiro
partially self-incompatible, early bloom
Silvergem
cream-fleshed
Skeena
self-fertile but very crack-susceptible
Snow Bride
A peach nectarine cultivar.
Sonata
A sweet cherry cultivar.
Sonnet
A sweet cherry cultivar.
Southern Pearl
A peach nectarine cultivar.
Spring Flame
A peach nectarine cultivar.
Spring Snow
A peach nectarine cultivar.
Stanley
the standard blue prune
Stella
A sweet cherry cultivar.
Sugar Giant
large, but high spot and inking under bad weather
Summer Beaut
always a few split pits Nectarine (fuzzless): carries the brown-rot modifier
Sunburst
A sweet cherry cultivar.
Sungold
very winter hardy
Surefire
Cornell/Geneva
Sweetheart
self-fertile, very late ripening, moderate cracking, but canker- and powdery-mildew-susceptible
Tieton
A sweet cherry cultivar.
Tilton
very hardy, resistant to late frost
Tomcot
reliable producer but an early bloomer
Ulster
A sweet cherry cultivar.
Valor
Vineland
Van
A sweet cherry cultivar.
Vanier
Canadian
Victoria
very late, excellent late flavor
Vulcan
dense non-melting
Westbrook
Arkansas
White Cloud
Arkansas
White Gold
Cornell release, cold-hardy, self-fertile, crack-tolerant
Yellow Egg
large yellow canning plum
Yukon King
great flavor but late with fruit spot problems
Where this data comes from
Sources
The variety data is drawn from the public references below. Each links to its source in context.
University extension and pomology research
Chill requirement, hardiness, bloom and harvest timing, and disease-resistance ratings, from public extension programs and peer-reviewed research.
Cultivar identity and release records
Names, parentage, release histories, and chill/bloom class, from breeding programs and foundation collections.
Rootstock and disease references
Rootstock vigor, nematode and replant tolerance, wet-soil fit, and brown rot, bacterial spot, and canker ratings, from rootstock trials and extension disease guides.
Pollination references
Self-fertility, sweet-cherry S-allele incompatibility groups, and Japanese-plum cross-pollination needs.
Every value carries a confidence flag: sourced, extension-draft, estimate, or inferred. Where a figure is a Folia estimate or a species-level default rather than a measured reading, the profile is built to show that, not to hide it.
The fit radar, the considerations, and the related-variety lists are derived. They are computed from the data above, not collected from a third party.
Assessing a specific property brings in separate public datasets (USGS, USDA, and NOAA, plus state parcel records). Those drive the per-site read, not this library.