'SHALIMAR': THE ATTRACTIVE VARIETY FOR WARMER AREAS

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'Shalimar' is a late (winter), highly productive, scab-resistant apple variety. Its brightly red conical fruits have good keeping quality and shelf life. We recommend growing 'Shalimar' in warm, sunny apple-producing areas, where the fruits achieve very good taste and high sugar and acid content.

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

Disease resistance: resistant to scab, tolerant 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