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Shamrock
type: Dessert, Eating, Pie
synonyms: A cider apple developed in Britain uses the same name; please see Shamrock .desert
identification: Medium to large size, round to slightly conic. The skin is yellowish green with a pink blush marked with large red dots on the sun-exposed face. Small, russeted lenticels are scattered across the shaded face. The calyx is small and partly open, set in a somewhat deep and funnel-shaped basin. The stem is long and medium thick, set in a medium deep funnel shaped, russetted cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is creamy white, coarse-grained and firm. Juicy, sprightly, sweet and aromatic. Resists browning when cut open.
uses: Best for fresh eating but will hold its shape in pies.
origins: Raised in 1970 by K. Lapins at the Summerland Research Station (now called the Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre) in Summerland, British Columbia (Canada) from a cross between McIntosh Spur (10C-843-1) x Starkspur Golden Delicious. Introduced in 1986.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous. Bears fruit on spurs and limbs. Precocious.
cold storage: Keeps up to three months.
harvest: In the last half of the fourth period. Almost no pre-harvest drop and the fruit hangs well long after maturity.
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 12
harvest period: 4
hardiness: 4
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