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Improved Dove
type: Cider
identification: Medium or slightly larger in size and round conic. The base colour is greenish yellow washed red and marked with a dense pattern of deeper red striping. Marked with tiny, light-coloured, russet lenticels. The stem is long and slender, set in a shallow and wide cavity. The calyx is small and tightly closed, set in a small and shallow basin.
characteristics: The flesh colour is white. Juicy and distinctly tannic with a mildly sweet aftertaste.
uses: A cider apple too tannic to be enjoyed for eating out of hand.
origins: A seedling apple grown in Somerset (U.K.) since the early 1900s. Likely derived as a pippin from the Dove apple.
cultivation: Vigorous, biennial.
cold storage: Keeps up to two months.
vulnerabilities: Less vulnerable to scab than the parent variety.
harvest: Starting early in the fifth period.
juice_classification: Mild bittersweet
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 10
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 8
harvest period: 5
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