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Primus
type: Dessert
identification: Large, oblong conic, often waisted toward the eye. The base colour is yellow washed deep red and marked with a pattern of darker stripes on all sun exposed surfaces. The eye is small and closed, set in a moderately deep and narrow basin. The stem is somewhat short and setin in a deep, funnel shaped cavity which is lightly russeted.
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, coarse grained, soft. Dry and very sweet
uses: Dessert
origins: — Rouge Etoil e x Cox s Orange Pippin, 1935 Institut Voor de Veredeling van Tuinbouwgewassen Wageningen, Netherlands Raised in 1935 at the Horticultural Laboratory, Wageningen, The Netherlands
cultivation: Moderately vigorous
cold storage: Keeps three months.
harvest: Early in the fourth period.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 12
ploidism: Self sterile. Group D Day 12
cold storage weeks: 12
harvest period: 4
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