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Scilly Pearl
type: Cooking, Sauce
identification: Medium size, round with angular sides. Greenish yellow, sometime blushed faint orange on the sun exposed face. The eye is small and partly open, set in a deep and narrow basin, sometime surrounded by a faintly knobbed crown. The stem is short to medium and somewhat slender, set in a deep and narrow, russeted cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is white, tender and soft, crisp. Sweet.
uses: Cooking. Makes a sweet apple sauce.
origins: Isles of Scilly, UK
cultivation: Vigorous.
cold storage: Does not store well.
harvest: Starting early in the second period.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 10
ploidism: Self sterile. Group C. Day 10.
harvest period: 2
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