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Ananas Rouge
type: Dessert, Eating, Juice, Pie
synonyms: Ananas, Red Pineapple, Roter Ananasapfel. Note that the Ananas Reinette and Cloche are also referred to as Ananas.
identification: Small to medium size, round conic, often lopsided. The base colour is gold yellow which is washed more than 50 per cent with a rich red on sun exposed surfaces and flushes of pale red streaked across shaded areas. There are scattered light coloured lenticels visible against the red. The calyx is tight and small, set in a funnel shaped basin. The stem is short and stout, almost hidden in a somewhat deep and narrow cavity.
characteristics: Flesh is yellowish white, stained pink under the skin. Fine grained, firm. Sweet, lightly tart with a pronounced pineapple flavour which matures to strawberry in storage.
uses: Primarily a fresh-eating apple, but also used for apple pies and juice.
origins: Found as a wild seedling in the vicinity of Vockerode in northern Germany, possibly in the late 1700s. First documented by Johann Ludwig Christ in his "Vollstandige Pomologie" (published 1809).
cultivation: Tree is moderately vigorous, upright spreading, tip bearer. Precocious.
cold storage: Does not store well.
harvest: Can be harvested starting early in the fourth period.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 14
ploidism: Diploid. Self-sterile.
harvest period: 4
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