Apple: Topaz

Sweet, spicy, juicy and strongly perfumed!

• Vigour: Medium
• Precociousness: High
• Resistances: Resistant to scab
• Size of fruit: Medium
• Flowering: Early
• Fruiting: Early
• Cropping: Medium
• Ploidy: Diploid
• Fruit colour: Red
• Flesh colour: White
• Leaf colour: Green
• Parentage: Rubin x Vanda
• Descendants: Harmony
• Biennialism: None observed
• Growth habit: Upright spreading
• Self-fertile: No

Developed at the Institute for Experimental Botany, Strizovice (Czech Republic) by crossing the Rubin and Vanda varieties, and introduced in 2001.

Noted for it's crisp "sparkling" taste, it is a prolific bearer, and must thinned heavily to ensure crops reach full size.

NOTE: I have yet to try this apple directly, and so have relied on others for information related to this variety.
This entry will be updated if I am able to procure a tree.