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Abrika
type: Dessert, Eating
summary: Remarkably sweet, late summer apple with red-tinged flesh.
identification: Medium size, round and only slightly conical. The base colour is yellow, also completely washed deep red, sometimes dark on the sun exposed face. Scattered light-coloured spots. The eye is small, closed with long petals and set in a shallow, puckered basin. The stem is short to medium long, thin and set in a shallow cavity with no russetting.
characteristics: The flesh is white with red stains, fine grained, firm but melting. Very juicy, sweet-tart with a noticeable aroma of apricot and peach.
uses: A super sweet, early season fresh-eating cultivar.
origins: Open-pollinated seedling of Reinette Descardre, raised by Alain Rouèche in the Charance region (France) in 2008.
cultivation: Vigorous. Precocious. Does well on dwarfing rootstock such as M9 to control its vigor.
cold storage: Keeps up to two months, but loses quality.
vulnerabilities: Resistant to powdery mildew and scab.
harvest: Through the second half of the third period.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 8
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 8
harvest period: 3
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