Roughly the size of a golf ball, the big berry weighs 20.4 grams and was grown using traditional manual techniques
It’s dark blue, about the diameter of a golf ball and it weighs 10 times as much as your average blueberry.
It is from the Eterna variety, a type of blueberry created under Costa’s variety improvement program , which develops one or two new blueberry varieties a year. Hocking said while typically a sacrifice in quality is expected with larger fruit, blueberries of the Eterna variety were “firm with a really good shelf life”.
Hocking said that while “there’s always potential to go bigger”, Costa was focused on improving agronomic traits – such as heat tolerance and resistance to pests and disease – over size.
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