Nectarine
Trademark: RUBY GEM™
Variety: Zairuge
Species: Prunus nucipersica
Origin
| Breeder, Place | Floyd Zaiger, California, USA |
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| Intellectual property | Mondial Fruit Selection, France |
| Type, Selection | clone INFEL 5798 |
| Property rights | registered for EU trademark |
Blossom
| Blooming date, -intensity | early blossom period with high density |
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| Fertility | self-fertile |
| Flower shape | rose shaped, large and pink double flowers |
| Frost susceptibility | medium susceptibility of flower buds to winter frost |
Fruit
| Ripening time | late, 11. peach week, 3-5 days after 'Fantasia' |
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| Scale, shape | medium large, rounded, limited suture, deep stalk cavity |
| Skin | smooth and firm |
| Colour | 80-90 % shiny dark red to crimson over colour |
| Fruit flesh | cream white, slightly reddish around the stone, medium firm, very juicy |
| Taste | spicy with well balanced sugar-acid ratio |
| Stone separability | clingstone |
| Storage | good |
Tree
| Vigour | strong, semi-upright to upright |
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| Crop load | high and regular |
Evaluation
Late ripening, white-fleshed variety which impresses with its highly aromatic flavour and optimum crop load. To maintain good fruit size thorough fruit-thinning is necessary. The large double flowers have excellent ornamental value and therefore are gladly used by florists for decorative purposes.