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Clivia
type: Dessert
summary: A fine fresh-eating apple with a flavour reminiscent of the Cox, this lends itself well to market and farmgate sales.
identification: Small to medium size. Round to round-conic. The skin has a pronounced greasy feel and is moderately thick. The base colour is yellow, over which are orange to dark red stripes. Marked with scattered, tan-coloured, medium size lenticels. The calyx is small and tightly closed, set in a narrow and shallow basin. The stem is moderately long and slender, set in a narrow and deep cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, fine-grained, firm and crisp. Juicy, sweet-tart and aromatic.
origins: Developed as a cross of Geheimrat Doktor Oldenburg x Cox’s Orange Pippin by M. Schmidt at the Institut für Acker- und Pflanzenbau in Müncheberg (Germany). Introduced, 1961.
cultivation: Weakly vigorous and requires aggressive annual pruning to encourage growth. Bears fruit on spurs as well as on one- and two-year-old growth.
cold storage: Keeps up to five months.
vulnerabilities: Slightly susceptible to scab and mildew.
harvest: In the last half of the fourth period.
pollination group: B
pollination peak: 6
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 20
harvest period: 4
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