
APPLES
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Flesh: Cream. Crisp, juicy. Fine to medium texture.
Flavour: Excellent. Improves after storage.
Blossom: Mid-season.
Comments: This cultivar produces excellent yields of
highly coloured, large fruit with good crispness, juice
and texture.
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Flesh: Pale cream. Medium textured. Very firm, crisp, juicy.
Flavour: Very Good.
Blossom: Mid to late season.
Comments: Excellent flavour. Bruises easily. Not '
grower - friendly', but consumer acceptance is excellent and growers who can handle this cultivar are rewarded in the marketplace.
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Flesh: Greenish - white. Crisp, firm and juicy .
Flavour: Good. Distinctively sprightly.
Blossom: Mid to late season.
Comments: A standard commercial cultivar grown
worldwide.
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Flesh: Greenish - white. Very crisp, juicy. Medium texture.
Flavour: Good, sweet.
Blossom: Mid season.
Comments: A widely planted standard 'Red Delicious'.
In some areas, superseded by the introduction of new spurtype cultivars.
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Flesh: Cream. Crisp, juicy. Fine to medium texture.
Flavour: Excellent, sweetImproves after storage.
Performs well in consumer taste tests.
Blossom: Mid season.
Comments: This cultivar produces excellent yields
of highly coloured, large fruit with good crispness,
juice and texture. One of the finest eating apples
with a high consumer demand
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Flesh: Whitish - cream. Very firm and crisp.
Flavour: Good, sprightly, with well balanced sugar
- acid if climate in production allows it.
Blossom: Mid season.
Comments: A very late, long keeping, hard apple
suitable for areas with a long growing season.
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Flesh: Creamy - white. Fine to medium texture.
Flavour: Good, sprightly. Reportedly has higher
sugar levels than 'Pink Lady' at same harvest time.
Blossom: Mid season.
Comments: Tree is spreading in habit with only medium vigour, giving highly coloured fruit. Should be trailled
in all areas. May allow growers in later districts to grow
this type of cultivar.
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Flesh: Creamy-white. Juicy and firm. Over mature fruit
should not be put into long term storage.
Flavour: Good, sprightly.
Blossom: Mid season.
Comments: Distinctive apperance, sprightly flavoured. Creating worldwide interest.
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Flesh: Greenish-white. Medium texture, crisp.
Flavour: Average. Improves after long term C.A. storage.
Blossom: Mid season.
Comments: Gained worlwide recognition as a top
quality 'Red delicious" cultivar. Has a proven ability to
develop and maintain excellent colour and shape over
a wide range of growing areas.
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Flesh: Cream. Excellent eating quality, crisp, very juicy.
Flavour: Sweet, appears to be influenced by cliamte conditions, tree vigour and maturity at harvest.
Blossom: Mid to late season. Long bloom period
Comments: Necessary tree training to achieve maximum light penetration.An important cultivar worlwide.
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Flesh: Cream, slightly green. Medium grained, crisp
and very juicy.
Flavour: Good, well balanced, aromatic.
Blossom: Mid season.
Comments: The most widely planted, ressut resistant
strain of 'Golden Delicious.
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Flesh: White. Crisp, juicy and firm.
Flavour: Sweet.
Blossom: Early season.
Comments: An attractive late cultivar with good colour
and flavour. A reliable cropper. Suitable foir areas with
a long growing season.
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Flesh: Red-skinned apple has firm and sweet white flesh.
Flavour: Very good, sweet aromatic.
Blossom: Mid to late season.
Comments: A superior red strain 'Gala'. Widely grown. Excellent flavour with very good consumer acceptance.
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Flesh: Cream, slightly green. Fine grained, crisp and
very juicy
Flavour: Sweet with little acid, good aromatic flavour.
Blossom: Mid season.
Comments: 'Golden Delicious' is an industry standard. Now challenged by 'Smoothee' because of its improved skin finish.

