Plant Variety Journal - IP Australia

Variety Description and Distinctness - Characteristics which distinguish the candidate from one
or more of the comparators are marked with a tick.
Organ/Plant Part: ‘Merbein
‘K48-45
‘41B’
‘M61-19’ ‘M61-36’
Context
5512’
Lider’
‘Merbein ‘Merbein
5489’ 6262’
*Time of: bud
burst (varieties not
for fruit production
only)
*Young shoot:
openness of tip
*Young shoot:
density of prostrate
hairs on tip
*Young shoot:
anthocyanin
colouration of
prostrate hairs on tip
late late late late late
fully open fully open fully open fully open fully open fully open fully open
very dense dense dense very dense very dense very dense very dense
medium weak
absent or absent or
very weak very weak strong
Young shoot:
density of erect hairs
on tip (varieties not dense
for fruit production
only)
dense medium dense dense
*Young leaf:
Colour of upper side
of blade
Young leaf:
density of prostrate
hairs between main
veins on lower side
of blade
yellow green
sparse
absent or
very sparse
yellow
green
yellow
green
medium medium dense
yellow
green
absent or
very
sparse
yellow green
dense
Shoot: attitude semi-erect erect erect semi-erect erect
*Shoot: colour of completely
ventral side of green
internode
Shoot: colour of
dorsal side of node completely
(varieties not for fruit green
production only)
Shoot: colour of
ventral side of node
(varieties not for fruit
production only)
Shoot: density of
completely
green
absent or
very sparse
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completely
green
completely completely completely
green green green
completely completely green with completely
green green red stripes green
completely
green
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completely completely completely
green green green
sparse sparse sparse sparse