Plant Variety Journal - IP Australia

*Fruit: pubescence absent absent
Fruit: thickness of skin medium medium
Fruit: adherence of skin to flesh
strong to very
strong
*Fruit: firmness of flesh very firm firm
strong to very
strong
*Fruit: ground colour of flesh white white
*Fruit: anthocyanin colouration directly under skin
absent or very absent or very
weakly expressed weakly expressed
*Fruit: anthocyanin colouration of flesh
absent or very absent or very
weakly expressed weakly expressed
*Fruit: anthocyanin colouration around stone
absent or very absent or very
weakly expressed weakly expressed
Fruit: texture of the flesh not fibrous not fibrous
Fruit: sweetness
high to very high high to very high
Fruit: acidity very low to low very low to low
*Stone: size compared to fruit medium medium
*Stone: shape elliptic obovate
Stone: intensity of brown colour medium to dark light to medium
Stone: relief of surface grooves grooves
Stone: tendency of splitting
absent or very low very low to low
*Stone: adherence to flesh present present
Stone: degree of adherence to flesh very strong very strong
Time of: leaf bud burst medium medium
*Time of: beginning of flowering medium medium
*Duration of: flowering medium medium
*Time of: maturity for consumption early early to medium
Tendency to: preharvest drop
absent or very
weak
Prior Applications and Sales
Country Year Current Status Name Applied
USA 2003 Granted ‘Spring Pearl’
First sold in the USA in Jan 2003.
Description: Peter Buchanan, Hodgsonvale, QLD
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very weak to
weak