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type: Eating
synonyms: Pacific Beauty
identification: Large
characteristics: Firm and juicy with a sweet flavour.
uses: Intended to be eaten fresh soon after harvest.
origins: Developed at Havelock North, New Zealand by Allan White and Don McKenzie for the New Zealand Horticulture Research Institute in the 1970s from a cross between Gala and Splendour. A large number of pips from this cross were grown and the Beauty was selected from the seedling trees for its early ripening.
cultivation: Vigorous, but tends to produce biennially. Somewhat intolerant to frost
notes: Under licence with ENZA.
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