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Okana
type: Dessert, Pollinization, Sauce
summary: A firm, crimson fresh-eating apple found growing in a Western Canadian orchard in the late 1900s. Similar to Spartans in flavour and appearance.
identification: Medium size, round conic, sometime slightly ribbed, but most often the ribbing is absent. The base colour is cream-coloured, covered almost entirely with a deep, purple red blush. Sparsely marked with small dark lenticels. The calyx is set in a shallow, moderately wide basin. The stem is medium long, medium stout, set in a moderately deep and wide wide basin which may be marked with some slight russeting. At maturity a heavy bloom develops on the surface.
characteristics: The flesh is white, very firm. Sweet.
origins: Found in 1998 by orchardist David Evans growing amidst a stand of Spartans in his orchard south of Oliver, British Columbia (Canada). However, they were sold as Spartans until 2013 when they were first marketed as Okanas.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright. Bears fruit on spurs.
cold storage: Up to four months without commercial cooling systems.
harvest: Late in the fourth period extending into the first half of the fifth period.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 12
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 16
brix: 11.5
harvest period: 4
hardiness: 4
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