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Welcome to the world's most extensive apples (pommes) database.
Information on over 7,000 apples is available here, all carefully researched and provided in a way that is easy to navigate.
Synonyms: Crimson Topaz
Identification: Medium tending to large. Round.The base colour is yellow at maturity, typically washed to between 40 and 70% with bright red, with a dense pattern of darker stripes and scattered small lenticels. The eye is large and closed, sometimes partly open, set in a medium deep and medium narrow basin, surrounded by a lightly knobbed crown. The stem is short to medium length and set in a shallow, russeted cavity. The skin is thick and tends to feel greasy when ripe and in storage. Lightly ribbed. A greasy feel develops on the skin at maturity and in storage.
Characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, fine-grained, crisp and firm, but becoming softer in storage. Very juicy, sweet, sharp, spicy and aromatic. Brix 12.4 degrees. High Vitamin C content.
Uses: Dessert.
Origins: Bred at the Institute for Experimental Botany, Strizovice (Czech Republic) by crossing Rubin and Vanda . Introduced in 2001.
Cultivation: Moderately vigorous and upright spreading tree. Spur bearer. Moderately heavy annual crops. Precocious. Need to be rigorously thinned at fruit set to achieve the given fruit size. Tolerates Hardiness Zones 5 to 8.
Ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
Cold storage: Keeps up to four months with some spoilage, two months longer in controlled atmosphere storage. Full flavours develop two to three weeks after harvest.
Vulnerabilities: Resistant to scab and slightly susceptible to mildew and blight.
Harvest: Ready for harvest by the beginning of the fifth period. Virtually no fruit drop.
Brix: 12.4
Specific gravity: 1.050
Harvest period: 5
Type(s): Dessert
Hardiness Zone min: 5
Hardiness Zone max: 8
Pollination group: E
Pollination day: 16
summary: This fine dessert apple was bred in the Czech Republic by crossing Golden Delicious with Topaz.
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