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La Flamboyante
type: Dessert, Eating
synonyms: Marketed as Mairac
identification: Medium size, round tending to conic. Base colour yellow is washed bright red and marked with faint, darker stripes. Abundant light-coloured lenticels give the surface a slightly rough feel.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish. Crisp, firm. Juicy. Very sweet and pleasantly tart. Aromatic.
uses: Intended as a supermarket eating apple.
origins: Developed in 1986 by Charles Repillard at the Centre des Fougeres of the Forschungsanstalt Changins in Wallis (Switzerland) by pollinating Kidd's D-8 with Maigold . Released in 2002.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright spreading, with weeping branches. Precocious. Annual harvests but needs to be thinned at fruit set. Needs to be pruned aggressively to maintain fruit size.
cold storage: Keeps up to five months, but cannot tolerate below-freezing temperatures. Controlled atmosphere storage up to eight months.
vulnerabilities: Somewhat susceptible to scab and mildew, very susceptible to canker.
harvest: Starting late in the third period until the middle of the fourth period.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 12
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 20
harvest period: 4
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