Clivia (apple)

'Clivia' is a German apple cultivar. It was created at the Institut für Acker- und Pflanzenbau of Müncheberg,^[1] in Märkisch-Oderland in eastern Germany, which at that time was in the German Democratic Republic. It is a hybrid of 'Geheimrat Dr. Oldenburg' and 'Cox's Orange Pippin'. It was reported as a new variety in 1964^[2] and 1965;^[3] it was parent of a new cultivar, 'Pinova', in 1965.^[4]

Malus pumila 'Clivia'
Genus	Malus
Species	Malus pumila
Hybrid parentage	Geheimrat Dr. Oldenburg × Cox's Orange Pippin
Cultivar	'Clivia'

Hybrids

Cultivars that descend from 'Clivia' include: 'Pilot' ('Clivia' × 'Undine'); 'Pinova' ('Clivia' × 'Golden Delicious'); 'Rubinstep' ('Clivia' × 'Rubin');^[5]: 539 and 'Reanda'.^[5]: 538

References

1. Heinz Murawski (1968). "40 Jahre Obstzüchtung in Müncheberg" (in German). Der Züchter. Reprinted in Obstbau in Brandenburg: Forschung für den Obstbau in Müncheberg, 2010. Landesverband Gartenbau Brandenburg. Accessed April 2014.
2. [s.n.] (1964). Notiziario de "La Ricerca scientifica, Volume 4, Issues 7–12 (in Italian). Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche. p. 818. Accessed April 2014.
3. [s.n.] (7 February 1965) Neue Apfelsorte (in German). Neues Deutschland. Accessed April 2014.
4. Mitteilungen des Obstbauversuchsringes des Alten Landes e. V. und der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Baumschulen im Obstbauversuchsring, Volume 57 (in German). p. 100. Accessed April 2014.
5. K. M. Evans, A. Patocchi, F. Rezzonico, F. Mathis, C. E. Durel, F. Fernández-Fernández, A. Boudichevskaia, F. Dunemann, M. Stankiewicz-Kosyl, L. Gianfranceschi, M. Komjanc, M. Lateur, M. Madduri, Y. Noordijk, W. E. van de Weg (2011). Genotyping of pedigreed apple breeding material with a genome-covering set of SSRs: trueness-to-type of cultivars and their parentages. Molecular Breeding 28 (4): 535–547. doi:10.1007/s11032-010-9502-5

Further reading

• H. Kegler, H. Otto (1970). Investigations on fruit spotting of Clivia apples/ Untersuchungen zur Fruchtfleckung an der Apfelsorte 'Clivia'. Neue Deutsche Obstbau 1. (subscription required)
• National Fruit Collection page