Ariwa

Very robust dessert variety with good taste for hobby- and aquisitive cultivation

Parents:

Golden Delicious x A 849-5

Growth:

medium growth, shoots fine, vigorous fruiting wood

Blossom:

medium early as Golden Delicious, diploid

Ripeness:

mid/end September ripe for picking, from October ripe for consumption

Storage:

In nature store without additional cooling (e.g. mud floor in a cellar, or wooden rack) best before end of December, in cold storage until the end of March.

Appearance:

medium-sized, spherical, slightly high-built, somewhat irregular. Bright orange-red fruit skin, lightly marbled to striped on yellow basis. The fruit pulp is yellowish-white.

Quality:

fruit pulp very firm and juicy

Taste:

harmonious, balance sugar/sourness ratio

Crop yield:

profitable early yield entry, good yields

Special notes:

scab- and mildew resistant, slight mildew symptoms are possible, so far no cancer