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| Plum Czar | Apple Aromatic Russet | Cherry Hertford | Apple Cosmic Crisp | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | A popular and easy to grow culinary plum. | A high quality russet-style variety, sharper than Egremont Russet, with a rich flavour and occasionally a hint of lemon. | Firm, good flavour. | Marketed as a new non-GMO, non-browning apple, Cosmic Crisp inherits reliability and disease-resistance from Enterprise and crisp flavor from Honeycrisp. Originally known as WA38. | |
Identification | Czar | Aromatic Russet | Hertford | Cosmic Crisp | |
| Fruit colour | Purple | Red | |||
| Flesh colour | White | ||||
| Fruit size | Large | ||||
| Fruit shape | Oval / round | ||||
Using | Czar | Aromatic Russet | Hertford | Cosmic Crisp | |
| Flavor | Average | Good | |||
| Flavour style | Sweet/Sharp | ||||
| Ripening period | Mid season | Mid-Late season | |||
| Use/Keeping | 1 week | 3 months or more | |||
| Cooking result | |||||
Growing | Czar | Aromatic Russet | Hertford | Cosmic Crisp | |
| Picking | |||||
| Cropping | Heavy | Good | |||
| Vigour | Average growth | Slightly small | |||
| Pollination | Flowering group 3 Self-fertile Blossom frost-resistance | Flowering group 3 Flowers Mid season Self-sterile | Self-sterile | Flowering group 4 Flowers Mid-Late season Self-sterile | |
| Gardening skill | Very easy | Average | |||
| Problems | Canker - Some resistance Silverleaf - Some susceptibility | Canker - Some resistance | |||
Other | Czar | Aromatic Russet | Hertford | Cosmic Crisp | |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom | United Kingdom | United Kingdom | United States | |
| Other qualities | Awards 1993 | Awards 2004 |