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Friday, December 15, 2017

New Apples discovery - Opal and Ambrosia

I came across these two new apples in my local grocery store.  Opal and Ambrosia.

Opal has the appearance of light brown-green color skin. It's far from the "red" and "green" like variety.  It was found in 1990's around British Columbia Canada .  It was stumbled upon in a family farm.  It's believed naturally cross-breed between Starking Delicious and  'Golden Delicious.

Ambrosia has the appearance of red with light green hue skin.  It looks like any recent varieties of bio-engineered apple.  It was only recently Developed by the Institute of Experimental Botany in Prague and FruitSelect in 1999.  It's growing in Washington.