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Rainbow
type: Dessert
identification: Large to very large, conic. The base colour is yellow, marked with a dense patter of with broken red stripes. Light-coloured lenticels are scattered over the faces.
characteristics: Flesh is pale yellow, fine-grained and juicy.
origins: Thought to have originated in the State of Missouri (U.S.A.) in the late 1800s. Listed in the Stark Brothers nursery catalogue during the early 1900s. There is no record of the Rainbow's parentage.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous. Produces annual harvests.
harvest: Early in the fourth period.
notes: Interest in this apple declined through the first half of the 1900s and by mid century, it was though to have been lost. However, in 1990, an old abandoned tree was located by apple explorer Carlos Manning of Lester in Raleigh County, West Virginia growing in his home town and he managed to obtain enough scion wood to restore the Rainbow's future.
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
harvest period: 4
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