Bouquepreuve
identification: Medium size, rounded and flattened. The skin is greenish yellow with carmine flushes on the sun exposed face. White lenticels are sparsely scattered over the surface. The stem is medium long and meduim stout set in a deep and open cavity which is lined with brown russeting which radiates onto the shoulder.
characteristics: The flesh is white, fine grained and crisp. Sweet and honeyed and mellows in storage. Keeps for about four months.
origins: Hautes Alps, France. since before 1869.
cultivation: Ready for harvest in the middle of the second period. Does well in full sun.
pollination group: E
pollination peak: 17
ploidism: Self sterile. Group E. Day 17.
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