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Ahra
type: Dessert, Eating, Pie
identification: Medium size tending to large. Round to round flattened. Base colour is yellow over which is a pattern of red and dark red stripes covering the sun exposed surface. The calyx is small and partly open, set in a wide, shallow and lightly puckered. Develops a waxy feel at harvest. Some tendency to cracking.
characteristics: The flesh is faintly yellow and crisp. Very juicy. Distinctly aromatic, sweet and spicy.
uses: Intended as a fresh eating apple, but also excellent for pies.
origins: A breeding of Klarapfel crossed with pollen from Klon 40 carried out at the Federal Research Center for Horticultural Plant Breeding in Quedlinburg, (Germany). Released in 1998.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous. Drooping growth habit.
cold storage: Keeps up to four months.
vulnerabilities: Resistant to scab and canker. Some susceptibility to powdery mildew.
harvest: In the first half of the fourth period.
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 16
harvest period: 4
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