'GOLDLANE': YELLOW, JUICY APPLE WITH COLUMNAR HABIT

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'Goldlane' is a late-ripening columnar variety bearing firm to medium firm, crisp, juicy fruit with a harmonic balanced flavour and relatively long storability. 'Goldlane' is suitable especially for home gardens as a solitaire or for hedges. Its highly juicy fruit can be eaten fresh or processed for juice.

Origin: 'UEB 3138/1' x 'Bohemia'

Tree: tree type columnar and compact, bears on spurs only, vigour weak to medium, diploid

Blossom: mid-season

Productivity: good, fruit thinning usually necessary to prevent alternation

Disease resistance: resistant to scab, tolerant to powdery mildew

PVR:
Community Plant Variety Rights EU 26963 (granted 22.03.2010)
United States Plant Patent US PP21,413P3 (granted 26.10.2010)
Plant Variety Rights in Switzerland CH 10.2230 (granted 31.07.2010)

Picking time: mid-October, about 10 days after 'Golden Delicious'

Ready to eat: since November

Storability: in natural storage until March

Fruit size/shape: size medium to large, shape obloid, stalk short

Colour: ground colour green-yellow (turns to yellow during storage), over colour absent, no russet

Flesh and flavour: flesh yellowish, firm to medium firm, crisp, very juicy, flavour very good, aromatic, with balanced sugar to acid ratio