Ambrosia
Variety of Apple · Malus domestica
Honey-sweet, very mild crunchy apple whose flesh browns only slowly.
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5🇨🇦 Canada 1990
Taste & characteristics
Taste
mildcrispjuicysweetaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- vermutl. Golden Delicious x Starking Delicious (Zufallssämling)
- Breeder
- Familie Mennell, Cawston BC
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
- Fruit weight
- 200 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Large, pink-red over yellow fruit with crisp, juicy, honey-sweet, low-acid flesh.
Growth
Medium vigour; cut flesh oxidises slowly, ideal for fruit salads.
Yield
High; good storage.
Notes
Originally a chance seedling in an orchard; now a global club variety.
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