Australian farm grows world's biggest blueberry

Tiffanie Turnbull - BBC News, Sydney
Fri, March 15, 2024



An Australian farm has smashed the record for the world's largest blueberry with a fruit the size of a ping-pong ball.

Picked in November and stashed in a freezer since, the monster was almost 4cm wide and weighed in at 20.4g - about 10 times the average blueberry.

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The specimen is of a new variety developed by the Costa Group, to meet consumer demands for larger berries.

Brad Hocking says the Eterna breed consistently yields huge fruit, but recent growing conditions had sparked a bumper crop at their farm in Corindi in northern New South Wales.

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