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Rajka
type: Dessert
synonyms: Rezista Rajka, Raika, Rome Rezista
identification: Medium size, round and somewhat flattened. Base skin colour is golden-yellow which is almost completely covered with flushes of deep cerrry red over 50 to 80% of the surface. Stem is medium long and somewhat stout, set in a deep, narrow and russetted cavity, with the russet frequently radiating onto the shoulder and across the face. The skin tends to become greasy at harvest.
characteristics: Flesh is creamy-white, fine-grained, crisp with a distinct crunch and very juicy. Sweet with good acid balance. When ripened fully with good conditions, the fruit has a discernible strawberry flavour. Grown in cool or poor conditions, it develops a tinny taste.
origins: Developed at the Institute of Experimental Botany in the Czech Republic in 1999 by cross-pollinating Šampion and an experimental variety labeled as UEB 1200/1 which carries the scab-resistant gene from Malus floribunda 821.
Šampion × ÚEB 1200/1(Katka)
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright spreading spur bearer. Crops heavily on an annual basis.
cold storage: Keeps three months in cold storage.
vulnerabilities: Resistant to mildew and scab.
harvest: Ready for harvest toward the middle of the fifth period. Little or no pre-harvest fruit drop.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 13
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 12
brix: 12.2
harvest period: 5
hardiness: 4
sg: 1.0492
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