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Kestrel
type: Dessert
synonyms: Kestral
identification: Medium size, round conic. The base colour is greenish yellow, which is blushed red on the sun-exposed face over which is a pattern of red stripes.
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, fine-grained and crisp. Juicy and sweet-tart. Aromatic.
origins: A cross of New York Red Spy and Macoun carried out in 1950 by C. J. Bishop at Agriculture Canada's Kentville Research Station, Nova Scotia (Canada). Final selection made by R. P. Longley in 1961 and released in 1975.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright spreading, spur bearer. Produces annual crops.
cold storage: Keeps three months in cold storage.
harvest: Ready for harvest starting in the last half of the fourth period.
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 12
harvest period: 4
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