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Venus Pippin
type: Cooking, Cider, Sauce
synonyms: Plum Bidy, Plum Biddy, Plumderity
identification: Medium size tending to large, round to round conic. Green maturing to yellow with a faint blush on the sun-exposed face and scattered red lenticels. The calyx is medium size, open with long petals, set in a deep and narrow basin. The stem is long and slender, set in a medium deep and narrow cavity which is russeted.
characteristics: The flesh is creamy white, coarse-grained, soft and tender. Juicy and sweet-tart.
uses: Cooking for sauces. also used for making cider.
origins: Believed to have been raised in the early 1800s in the Devon's Tamar Valley (U.K.).
cultivation: Vigorous. Needs to be thinned at fruit set to maintain size.
cold storage: Keeps up to two months.
harvest: In the first part of the fourth period.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 14
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 8
harvest period: 4
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