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Delfloga
type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert
synonyms: Marketed as Adore, also Royale Delbard.
summary: Created in France for Delbard Nurseries and released in 2008, the Delfloga is an excellent eating apple. It is also disease resistant and self-fertile.
identification: Small to medium size, . Base colour is yellow, striped bright red and marked with medium size, russet lenticels. The eye is small and partly open set in a narrow and deep basin which is surrounded by a pronounced crown which is lightly and irregularly knobbed. The stem is medium to short, slender to fleshy, set next to a fleshy swelling in a shallow and wide, russetted cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, medium coarse-grained, very firm, crunchy. Very juicy, sprightly and very sweet, but flavour is very mild.
origins: Developed by Guy Devillard in 1983 for the Pépinières et Roseraies Georges Delbard at Malicorne in the Allier Department of central France by crossing a Tenroy Gala with pollen from Florina . Final selection from among the seedlings was carried out in 1998. Introduced in 2008.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous and upright spreading. Bears fruit on shoots and spurs.
cold storage: Keeps up to four months.
vulnerabilities: Bred for resistance to scab.
harvest: Starting late in the fourth period.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 14
ploidism: Diploid. Self fertile but produces best with compatible pollen source.
cold storage weeks: 16
harvest period: 4
hardiness: 4
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