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Old 12-27-2009 | 06:12 PM
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The shape of 'Fuyu' fruit is flattened, 'Maru' is rounded, and 'Hachiya' is heart-shaped and pointed at the apex. 'Fuyu' is the most widely planted cultivar in Japan and is noted for its nonastringent fruit, good yield, vigorous upright growth habit, and ease of training. 'Maru' has somewhat brittle branches, and the fruit is astringent, maturing about three weeks earlier than 'Fuyu'. 'Hachiya' fruit is also astringent before softening. These and most other cultivars bear only functionally female flowers (with stamens present but sterile) that without fertilization produce seedless (parthenocarpic) fruit. In Japan, these flowers are sometimes hand-pollinated with pollen from varieties that bear male flowers. Growers there believe that pollination helps to produce better fruit and that parthenocarpic fruit tends to drop prematurely. Handpollination is not practiced in Hawaii.
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