Melinda® Dolcevita ('UEB 6581') - the super-sweet treat
'UEB 6581', one of several varieties sold and promoted under the joint trademark Melinda® Dolcevita, is a club variety bearing particularly beautiful pinkish red fruits with even more remarkable super-sweet flavour. Together with its crunchy consistency and juiciness, all this makes this apple a perfect choice especially for those who have a sweet tooth.
This variety is one of our latest high-flyers, with about 500,000 trees planted over the last six seasons of its sale.
The trademark Melinda® Dolcevita is owned by the company Melinda, Italy and the club is managed by the company Konsortium südtiroler Baumschuler, Italy.
Parents
'Fuji' × 'UEB 32642' (Opal®)
Plant variety rights
Community Plant Variety Rights EU 48317 (granted 05.02.2018)
United States Plant Patent US PP30,848P3 (granted 27.08.2019)
Plant Variety Rights in the Czech Republic CZ 1/2018 (granted 09.01.2018)
Health
monogenic resistance to scab, tolerance to powdery mildew, no bitter pit observed
Growth
habit ramified, spreading, with medium vigour, forms open crowns, diploid
Blossom
mid-season
Ripening
beginning of October, shortly after 'Golden Delicious', not susceptible to fruit fall; fruit is ready to eat shortly after picking
Fruit size & shape
size medium, shape round conical to conical, stem medium long
Fruit colour
yellow ground colour on almost 100 % covered with carmine red over colour with solid flush, russeting observed rarely
Fruit quality & taste
flesh firm, crisp, juicy, very sweet with a little acid, very good fruity aromatic flavour, remarkable sugar/acid ratio of up to 40:1
Productivity
precocious, good, requires good thinning to produce annual crops
Storability
in cold storage until March
Notes
watercore may occur at harvest but disappears during storage