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Moonlight
type: Dessert
synonyms: UEB 3727/4
summary: With its columnar growth habit, this cultivar from Czech Republic makes an ideal garden apple.
identification: Medium size, round conic tending to conic. Smooth skin, greenish yellow base colour, sometimes with a reddish-orange blush on the sun exposed face.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, firm and fine-grained. Juicy, tangy-sweet and aromatic.
origins: Developed by Dr. Jaroslav Tupý at the Institute of Experimental Botany in Prague (Czech Republic) by crossing Goldstar with Telamon (Waltz) in 1996. First fruited in 2002 and released in 2010.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous. Compact columnar growth. Precocious. Produces annually, but heaviest crops every other year.
cold storage: Four months.
vulnerabilities: Scab resistant, tolerant of powdery mildew.
harvest: In the first half of the fifth period.
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 16
harvest period: 5
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