| Variety: | MIRAGE | |
| Origin: | Natural mutation of Eva | |
| Breeder: | Clone Nursery, Brazil | |
| Licence Holder: | Clone Nursery, Brazil | |
| Fruit size (mm): | Mostly 70 to 85 mm | |
| Bloom date: | Very early (August 18th in South Hemisfere) | |
| Chill Requirement: | 300-400 CU (compared to 1000-1150 for Gala) | |
| Picking date: | Very early (December 25 in South Hemisfere ) | |
| Pollinated by: | Princesa, Mirage, Julieta | |
| Tree type: | Erect, abundant bloom and seeting in lateral buds of 1 year old shoot | |
| Growth: | Weak to average | |
| Productivity: | Time to first cropping: | very rapid |
| Yield: | escepcionally good | |
| Susceptibilty to alternated bearing: | no even after very heavy crops | |
| Chemical thinning: | difficult | |
| Response to Diseases: | as standard varieties | |
| Storage: | Cold Storage: | 60-90 days |
| CA storage | ||
| Uses: | Early Gala type with excelente striped collor; suitable to areas where other high chill apples do not performe well. | |
| Note: | Extremelly productive; very high fruit set even in one year old lateral buds; carefull prunning essential to facilitate thinnning; very good fruit quality but requires multiple pickings | |
| Fruit: | Skin: | striped dark red collor, similar to striped dark Galas |
| Flesh: | very crispy, juicy | |
| Taste: | sweet | |
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