Peach
Trademark: SWEET CAP ™
Variety: Maillarflat (S)
Species: Prunus persica
Origin
| Breeder, Place | A. Maillard, France |
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| Intellectual property | Europépinières, France |
| Type, Selection | clone INFEL 7362 |
| Property rights | registered for EU plant variety rights and trademark |
Blossom
| Blooming date, -intensity | late blossom period, high density |
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| Fertility | self-fertile |
| Flower shape | rose shaped, large double flowers with excellent ornamental value |
| Frost susceptibility | low |
Fruit
| Ripening time | medium late, 10.-11 peach week |
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| Scale, shape | medium large flat peach |
| Skin | barely woolly |
| Colour | greenish yellow ground colour and high percentage of shiny red over colour |
| Fruit flesh | white, tender melting fruit flesh, very juicy |
| Taste | sweet-spicy, refreshing and typical peach flavour |
| Stone separability | freestone, small stone |
| Storage | good |
Tree
| Vigour | weak to medium strong, good branching, harmonious habit, healthy and dark green foliage |
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| Crop load | from an early age high to very high and regular |
Evaluation
A flat peach with high cracking resistance that yields well and has a sweet-spicy and refreshing taste. It is recommended to pick this variety underripe, like all flat peaches. This prevents splitting around the stalk cavity.