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Rival
type: Cooking, Dessert
identification: Medium to large, round flattened. The base colour is pale yellowish green washed with bright red and striped on the sun exposed face. The eye is medium large and partly to fully open, set in a deep and narrow basin. The stem is short and moderately thick, set in a deep and narrow, russeted cavity. Covered with a thin bloom at maturity.
characteristics: The flesh is white and crisp. Juicy and sharp.
uses: Dessert and cooking.
origins: Developed by Charles Ross, head gardener at Welford Park, Newbury, Berkshire (U.K.) by crossing Peasgood Nonsuch x Cox's Orange Pippin. 1900.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright spreading tree. Bears fruit on spurs. Biennial. Thrives in areas of cool summers a tolerated cold winters.
cold storage: Up to three months
harvest: Late in the third period.
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 12
harvest period: 3
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