This highly productive late variety combines scab resistance with the quality of fruit that keeps in good shape for long months. 'Shalimar' thrives best in warmer, sunny apple-producing areas, where the apples achieve very good taste and high sugar and refreshing acid. A good choice for those looking for an attractive variety with an intensive flavour and a decent keeping quality.
Origin: 'Topaz' x 'Golden Delicious'
Tree: habit ramified, spreading, vigour medium, diploid
Blossom: mid-season, flowers heavily and regularly
Productivity: precocious, annual producer of heavy crops
Diseases: monogenic resistance to scab, tolerance to powdery mildew
PVR:
Community Plant Variety Rights EU 25472 (granted 22.06.2009)
Plant Variety Rights in the Czech Republic CZ 2/2009 (granted 03.02.2009)
Picking time: mid-October to end of October, about two weeks after 'Golden Delicious'
Ready to eat: from January
Storability: in natural storage until April
Fruit size/shape: size medium, shape conical, stalk medium long
Colour: ground colour yellow-green to yellow, covered on about 80 % of the surface with solid red flush with weakly defined stripes, russet-free
Flesh and flavour: flesh yellowish, firm, crisp, juicy, flavour harmonic, very good, sugar and acid content high