The Balaton cherry is a cultivar of sour cherry (Prunus cerasus) native to Hungary, where it was originally named Újfehértói Fürtös. There are also some individually named high-performance clones that have been selected from this genetically more diverse variety, for example the "Kindelbrück". Balaton was introduced to the United States in the 1980s and is now grown there commercially. Extremely high yields, suitability for mechanical harvesting and positive fruit characteristics make for a commercially interesting crop. The fruit is particularly suitable for the fresh market, but also for processing (which is much more common with sour cherries).
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👉 Balaton cherry in the context of Morello cherry
Morello is the most widely planted cultivar group of sour cherry (Prunus cerasus subsp. acida) in Central Europe. It is a late-ripening cherry with high yields.
It also gives its name to a group of varieties of the subspecies acida: the tarter, dark-juiced morello cherries. These include the varieties "Balaton", "Ostheim" and "Fanal". On the other hand, the morello cherry in the narrower sense consists of a mixture of forms that have a certain genetic diversity and from which some named clones have been selected, like "Scharö" and "Boscha".