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Ariwa
type: Dessert
summary: A Golden Delicious offspring developed in Switzerland in the late 1900s. Marketed as a sweet-tart, flavourful supermarket variety.
identification: Medium size, round to round cylindric. Ribbed and often irregular. The base colour is greenish yellow washed between 40 and 70% bright red. The lenticels are russetted with greenish halos. The skin develops a greasy feel as it matures. The calyx is small and partly open set in a shallow and wide, lightly ribbed basin. The stem is long and slender, set in a medium deep, funnel shaped, russetted cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, medium grained, firm and crisp. Juicy and pleasantly sweet-tart. Refreshing flavour.
uses: Intended as a supermarket eating apple.
origins: Developed at the Federal Research Station Wadenswil in Wadenswil (Switzerland) by crossing Golden Delicious with pollen from Selection A849-5, which carries the scab-resistant Vf genetics. Introduced in 1996.
cultivation: Weakly vigorous, spreading pyramidal. Willowy branches. Precocious and produces annual harvests. Thinning at fruit set is recommended.
cold storage: Keeps up to three months.
harvest: During the last half of the third period. Needs two to three pickings. No tendency to drop fruit before harvest,
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 12
brix: 11.3
acidity: 6.1
harvest period: 3
sg: 1.0454
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