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Winter Quarrenden
type: Dessert
synonyms: Blood Royal, Stubb’s Seedling
identification: Medium to large, round to round flattened. The base colour is greenish yellow washed maroon and marked with scattered light coloured lenticels. The eye is small and tightly closed, set in a shallow, puckered basin. The stem is short to medium and slender, set in a deep and narrow, russeted cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, crisp and tender. Sweet and perfumed.
uses: dessert
origins: Nottinghamshire UK 1896///propogated by Pearsons Nursery and listed in in 1896 catalogue NFC Originated in the UK. Introduced by Pearson of Nottingham. Recorded in 1896.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright spreading tree. Bears fruit on spurs.
cold storage: Keeps up to three months.
harvest: In the first half of the fourth period. Problems: ababab
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 8
ploidism: Self sterile. Group C. Day 8.
cold storage weeks: 12
harvest period: 4
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