Botanical description
Plumac holds a US plant patent and a full botanical description has been made to the US Plant Patent Office. UPOV applications complete with descriptions are underway.
The Plumac tree is:
- Vigorous in the nursery and feathers readily.
- Grower friendly - branches readily and naturally with low branch angles requiring little training.
- Branches weep and come down readily with crop load
- It is both spur and tip bearing, cropping on one year wood
- Highly productive - current indications suggest that it is significantly more productive than Gala and likely more productive than Braeburn and Fuji.
- Not prone to biannual bearing, but will do so if overcropped.
- The tree form enables pruning to be fast and inexpensive
- Responsive to chemical thinners and easy to thin chemically
- Limited information suggests that the tree is more frost hardy than Fuji or Gala
- Low susceptibility to blackspot - less susceptible than Gala and similar to Fuji.
- Less susceptibility to mildew than Gala, similar to Fuji.
- Very low susceptibility to European Canker and is more resistant than Jazz™ (Scifresh) or Envy™ (Scilate), being similar to Fuji and Cripps Pink.
- In the nursery, similar to Gala for fireblight susceptibility due to its high vigour - more resistant than Braeburn and similar to Fuji.
- In the orchards, fireblight has not been seen and is regarded as better than Cripps Pink or Gala for resistance.
The KORU® fruit is:
- Globose and conical shape with a closed calyx .
- Closed sinus
- Naturally large, packing at around average count size 80.
- Distinctive orange/red over colour comprising of stripes and mottles.
- Colour can be brownish on young/overcropped trees.
- Colour advances in coolstore similar to Fuji.
- Skin is medium thick, resistant to puncturing and bruising.
- The flesh is greenish white.
- Flesh texture is crisp and melting, leaving no mouth residue.
- Firm apple, harvesting at pressures of around 9.5 kg per cm², and it retains its pressure well in storage.
- Flavour is sweet, aromatic and complex with a rich honey-like aftertaste.
- Extremely sweet apple with a brix around 13°. There is an excellent balance between sugar and acidity.
- Slow to brown relative to other common comparison varieties. This is very important in hot market places.
- Non satiating.
- The flavour and texture of Plumac appeal to a wide range of consumers
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