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Tropical Beauty
type: Dessert
synonyms: Tropic Beauty
summary: This dessert apple is highly suitable for tropical conditions, requiring less than 100 chill hours of dormancy.
identification: Medium size, round conic with angular, ribbed sides. The base colour is greenish-yellow over which is a dark red wash on the sun exposed face. Some dark red striping. The calyx is large and open set in a shallow and wide basin which is surrounded by a sharply ridged crown. The stem is medium long and slender, set in a medium deep, funnel shaped, puckered cavity. Tends to develop a greasy feel when mature or in storage.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish white, coarse-grained, firm. Somewhat dry and sweet.
uses: dessert
origins: Raised in about 1930 by Meredith B. Strapp, Maidstone, South Africa. Named and introduced in Australia in 1958 by Longbecker Nurseries, Bunderburg. A seedling of unknown parentage.
cultivation: Needs hot summers, temperate winters, with a dormancy of less than 100 chill hours.
cold storage: Up to three months.
harvest: In the early part of the fifth period.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 11
ploidism: Partly self fertile but produces the best harvests in the presence of a matching source of pollen.
cold storage weeks: 12
harvest period: 5
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