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Queen Alexandra
type: Cooking, Sauce
identification: Large, round. Yellow base colour is blushed red and marked with darker stripes on the sun exposed face. Faint reddish stripes are sometime visible on the shaded sides as as are abundant, small brownish lenticels. The eye is large and partly open, set in a shallow and wide basin. The stem is short and somewhat slender, set in a medium deep and very narrow, russet cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, coarse?grained, crisp.
uses: Cooking. Makes a richly flavoured and slightly tart apple sauce.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, spreading.
cold storage: Up to three months
harvest: In the first half of the fourth period.
pollination group: E
pollination peak: 17
ploidism: Self sterile. Group E. Day 17.
cold storage weeks: 12
harvest period: 4
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