The new variety Mairac in being grown in a test plot in the Wenatchee, Washington, area. Two partners in the European commercialization company VariCom, Michael Weber and Bruno Essner, traveled to the United States in late September to appraise their varieties in test plots. VariCom has applied for plant variety rights for the cultivar La Flamboyante in Chile, New Zealand, South Africa, Russia, the European Union, and Switzerland, but is not patenting it in the United States. The variety is trademarked as Mairac, however. Nurseries that are members of the International New Varieties Network have been licensed to grow trees […]