'Dark Topaz' - the remarkably dark mutation of 'Topaz'
The quite newly discovered 'Dark Topaz' is (after the already widely popular 'Red Topaz') another natural mutation of the well-known variety 'Topaz'. They all share resistance to diseases, low growing demands, and delicious taste. 'Dark Topaz' will catch your attention thanks to its unusual very dark purple-red fruit skin colour.
Parents
natural mutation of 'Topaz'
Plant variety rights
Applied for Plant Variety Rights in Germany
Applied for Community Plant Variety Rights
Health
monogenic resistance to scab
Growth
habit ramified, spreading, growth moderately vigorous, produces many fruiting spurs, diploid
Blossom
mid-season, flowers heavily also on one year old wood
Ripening
together with 'Golden Delicious'
Fruit size & shape
size medium, shape obloid
Fruit colour
flushed purple-red over colour with weakly defined stripes on the vast majority of the fruit surface, some russet in stem cavity
Fruit quality & taste
flesh yellowish, firm, crisp, very juicy with very good taste
Productivity
precocious, heavy and regular
Storability
in natural storage until March
Notes
the variety should have borne the name 'Black Topaz', but it was recently changed due to plant variety rights