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Plant Variety Journal - IP Australia

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Most Similar Varieties of Common Knowledge identified (VCK)<br />

Name Comments<br />

‘Spring Candy’ ‘Diamond Candy’ is similar to ‘Spring Candy’ by producing freestone peaches that<br />

are yellow in flesh colour, sub-acid in flavour, globose in shape and firm in texture.<br />

‘Spring Candy’ peach is distinguished by producing peaches that have more red<br />

bleeding around the stone and that mature eight days earlier.<br />

Varieties of Common Knowledge identified and subsequently excluded<br />

<strong>Variety</strong> Distinguishing<br />

Characteristics<br />

‘Diamond<br />

Ray’<br />

State of Expression<br />

in Candidate<br />

<strong>Variety</strong><br />

State of Expression in<br />

Comparator <strong>Variety</strong><br />

Comments<br />

Fruit pubescence present absent Seed parent; excluded as a<br />

comparator because it is a<br />

nectarine and ‘Diamond<br />

Candy’ is a peach.<br />

<strong>Variety</strong> Description and Distinctness - Characteristics which distinguish the candidate from one or<br />

more of the comparators are marked with a tick.<br />

Organ/<strong>Plant</strong> Part: Context ‘Diamondcandy’ ‘Spring Candy’<br />

*Tree: size medium medium<br />

medium to strong medium to strong<br />

Tree: vigour<br />

*Tree: habit<br />

upright to semiupright<br />

upright to semiupright<br />

Flowering shoot: thickness medium medium<br />

Flowering shoot: length of internodes medium medium<br />

*Flowering shoot: intensity of anthocyanin colouration present present<br />

*Flowering shoot: anthocyanin colouration strong medium to strong<br />

*Flowering shoot: density of flower buds<br />

medium to dense sparse to medium<br />

Flowering shoot: general distribution of flower buds<br />

in groups of two<br />

or more<br />

isolated<br />

*Flower: type showy showy<br />

*Calyx: colour of inner side orange orange<br />

*Corolla: predominant colour dark pink medium pink<br />

*Petal: shape round round<br />

*Petal: size large large<br />

*Petals: number five five<br />

<strong>Plant</strong> Varieties <strong>Journal</strong> Vol. 21 No.3<br />

Stamens: position same level same level<br />

*Stigma: position above above<br />

*Anthers: pollen present present<br />

*Ovary: pubescence present present<br />

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