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Aiwa
type: Dessert
identification: Medium size. Round to slightly flattened. The base colour is pale green maturing to lemon yellow, over which is a red blush and a dense pattern of darker red stripes marked with large yellowish lenticels. The stem is long and slender, set in a deep and moderately wide cavity. The calyx is closed, though sometimes partly open, set in a moderately deep and wide basin, surrounded by a five-knobbed crown.
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured. Crunchy, juicy, sweet-tart and aromatic.
origins: An open-pollinated seedling of Macoun developed at Poland's Institute of Pomology in 1956.
cultivation: Vigorous. High, spherical crown. Develops a tendency to produce best every other year. Winter hardy.
cold storage: Fruit continues to develop flavours and sweetness during the first month in storage and will keep four months in storage.
vulnerabilities: Moderately resistant to scab and powdery mildew.
harvest: Late in the fourth period through to the middle of the fifth period.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 12
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 16
harvest period: 5
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