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Meku
type: Dessert
identification: Large, oblong and slightly conic. The base colour is greenish yellow over which is a deep red wash and a pattern of darker stripes. The eye is medium size and clsoed, set in a medium wide and medium deep basin. The stem is medium length and slender, set in a deep and somewhat narrow cavity which is surrounded with a cinnamon colour russet. Scattered faint, light coloured spots.
characteristics: The flesh is white. Juicy and sweet. Keeps two months in cold storage.
uses: Dessert
origins: — Tsugaru x Amerian Summer Pippin, Japan Raised in 1959 at Aomori Apple Experiment Station, Japan, Tsugaru (female) ? American Summer Pearmain (male)
cultivation: Ready for harvest early in the SECOND period.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 14
ploidism: Self sterile. Group D Day 14
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