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Benifuji
type: Dessert
identification: Medium size fruit, round to round conic. The base colour is greenish yellow over which is a pattern of bright red stripes, marked with scattered, small lenticels. The calyx is medium size and partly open, set in a medium wide, shallow basin. The stem is medium long and medium thick, set in a medium wide, shallow cavity
characteristics: Firm, juicy.
origins: Developed in 1977 by Tsuneo Murakami at Aomori Prefecture (Japan) from an open pollinated Tohoku 7 . Selected from among 2,000 sprouted seedlings and first fruited in 1986.
cultivation: Weakly vigorous, upright spreading tree. Spur bearer.
cold storage: Keeps for up to a month in storage.
harvest: Ready for harvest late in the third period.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 12
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 4
brix: 12.3
harvest period: 3
hardiness: 5
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