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Alpha 68
type: Cooking, Dessert
synonyms: Alfa 68
identification: Medium tending to large, Round sometimes with angular sides. The base colour is green over which is a red blush on the sun exposed face.The eye is semi open and medium size in a shallow basin. The stem is short and somewhat slender, knobbed and st in a rather shallow, funnel shaped, russeted cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, firm and tender. Juicy, sharp, with a good flavour.
uses: cooking
origins: Developed in 1936 at the Horticultural Research Station, Alnarp, Sweden by pollinizing Belle de Boskoop (flower) with Filippa (pollen). It was introduced in 1954.
cultivation: Spreading. Slow to start fruiting. Produces heavy crops annually.
cold storage: Keeps up to three months.
harvest: In the middle of the third period.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 12
ploidism: Triploid. Produces no valid pollen for itself nor other apple varieties.
cold storage weeks: 12
harvest period: 3
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