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'CAMELOT': REFRESHING DELIGHT FOR A LONG TIME

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'Camelot' is a late dessert variety robust to multiple diseases, which bears bicolour fruit with a firm and crisp texture and a harmonic, pleasantly refreshing, slightly sour flavour. Its apples keep in good shape for long in storage. 'Camelot' is one of our latest promising newselections, currently in trials and waiting for its introduction onto the market.

Camelot - fruits
Camelot - tree
Camelot - tree in bloom

Origin: 'UEB 3317/1' x 'Mira'

Tree: tree type ramified, habit spreading, branching medium, vigour medium

Productivity: precocious, medium high to high, regular

Disease resistance: resistant to scab, tolerant to powdery mildew and fire blight

PVR:
Plant Variety Rights in the Czech Republic CZ 001204/2024 (granted 03.01.2024)
Community Plant Variety Rights EU 66451 (granted 22.04.2024)

Picking time: beginning of October, shortly before or with 'Golden Delicious'

Storability: in cold storage until March or April, in controlled atmosphere conditions for 10 months

Fruit size/shape: size medium, shape globose to conical, stem short

Colour: ground colour yellow, over colour bright red solid flush with weakly defined stripes on 70 - 80 %, russet-free

Flesh and flavour: flesh firm, crisp, juicy, fine-grained, flavour aromatic, a bit tart, very good, pleasant and refreshing

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