Gemma

Gemma on tree 1
Gemma on tree 2
Gemma fruits
Origin: ‘BO 92639060 x ‘Orange Red’ cross, early selected as ‘BO 03608022’.
 
Community Plant Variety Rights: EU37360 (24 March, 2014).
 
Tree: standard open growth habit, vigorous, and early bearing; bears on feather and both spurs and one-year old shoots; the bloom is late, medium to abundant, fully self-fertile; the yield is good.
 
Date of ripening: 83 days from full bloom to ripening date (third week of June in the southern Po Valley, northern Italy).
 
Fruit: ovate-elliptical, slightly asymmetrical and of good size (65-70g); skin is orange with 30-40% bright blush, of medium acidic taste; the flesh is very firm, juicy, of uniform ripening, orange, melting and freestone, not sensitive to internal browning. Excellent flavour, very sweet. Pit is free of medium size, oblong.
 
Overall: very interesting cultivar for its fruit of outstanding eating quality and agronomic traits.
 
Not resistant to PPV (Sharka).

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