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Appletown Wonder
type: Dessert, Eating
summary: This Irish apple grows to huge size, tastes great and becomes sweeter in storage.
identification: Very large, sometimes in excess of half a kilogram. Ribbed and puckered at the calyx.
uses: Can be eaten fresh off the tree but sweetens in storage.
origins: Found growing at Appletown, Limerick County (Ireland) in 1998. The original tree has been lost but cuttings were taken about a week before it fell and are now available. Probably a wild seedling with no documented parentage.
cultivation: spur bearer
cold storage: Keeps two months in storage, becoming sweeter.
harvest: In the third period, sometimes into the fourth.
notes: Will self root when cuttings are stuck in the ground.
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 8
harvest period: 3
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