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Seabrook Opal
type: Dessert
synonyms: Opal. The UEB 3264/2 bred in the Czech Republic is also marketed under the name Opal.
summary: A late ripening dessert apple with strawberry flavours, developed in Essex (U.K.) in the 1930s.
identification: Medium, conic, sometimes waisted toward the . The base colour is greenish yellow over which is a deep red wash fading to medium red striping on the edges of the wash. The calyx is small and partly open, set in a shallow, medium wide, lightly puckered basin. The stem is short, slightly stout and set in a narrow basin. The skin develops a thin bloom on the surface.
characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, firm and crisp. Juicy and sweet with a sprightly, strawberry flavour.
uses: dessert
origins: Bred in the 1930s by W.P. Seabrook of Seabrook & Sons in Essex (U.K.) by crossing Worcester Pearmain and Rival which is also the parentage of Flame . Introduced in 1936.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright spreading tree. Bears fruit on spurs.
cold storage: Keeps up to three months.
harvest: Ready for harvest late in the fifth period.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 9
ploidism: Partially self fertile but produces the heaviest crops when planted in proximity to a compatible source of pollen.
cold storage weeks: 12
harvest period: 5
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