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Tasman Pride
type: Dessert
synonyms: Butter's Early Red, Tasma Pride, Tasman’s Pride
identification: Medium size, oblong with angular sides. The base colour is yellow over which is a maroon wash on the sun exposed face. The eye is large and open, set in a deep and funnel shaped basin which is usually pleated. The stem is medium long, medium thick and set in a moderately deep and narrow cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, crisp. Very sweet, honeyed.
uses: Dessert
origins: NFC Originated in the 1880s as a chance seedling on the farm of Thomas Young near Margate, Tasmania (Australia).
cultivation: Moderately vigorous. Spur bearer. Produces heavy crops but can be prone to biennial bearing.
cold storage: Keeps up to three months.
harvest: In the middle of the fourth period.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 9
ploidism: Self sterile. Group C Day 9
cold storage weeks: 12
harvest period: 4
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