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{{Short description|Apple cultivar}}
{{Infobox cultivar
| name = ''Malus pumila'' 'Pinova'
| image = Pinata grouping.jpg
| genus = ''[[Biology:Malus|Malus]]''
| species = ''[[Biology:Malus pumila|Malus pumila]]''
| hybrid = '[[Biology:Clivia (apple)|Clivia]]' × '[[Biology:Golden Delicious|Golden Delicious]]'
| cultivar = 'Pinova'
| marketing_names = {{unbulleted list|Corail|Piñata|Sonata}}
| origin =  Pillnitz, [[Place:Dresden|Dresden]], Germany
}}

[[File:Apfel-Pinova.jpg|thumbnail|'Pinova' apple]]
''''Pinova'''' is a German [[Biology:Apple|apple]] [[Biology:Cultivar|cultivar]]. It was created in 1965 at the Institut für Obstforschung of Dresden–Pillnitz in Saxony{{r|obst}} which at that time was in the German Democratic Republic. After Germany was re-united in 1990, the rights to the cultivar passed to the Free State of Saxony.{{r|dwarf}}

'Pinova' is a [[Biology:Hybrid|hybrid]] between [[Biology:Clivia (apple)|'Clivia']] and '[[Biology:Golden Delicious|Golden Delicious]]'. 'Clivia' is a hybrid of '[[Biology:Geheimrat Dr. Oldenburg|Geheimrat Dr. Oldenburg]]' and '[[Biology:Cox's Orange Pippin|Cox's Orange Pippin]]'.{{r|mol}} 'Pinova' may also be called ''''Corail'''', '''Piñata®''' or ''''Sonata''''.

== Characteristics ==
'Pinova' has a high fruit yield, with little tendency towards biennial bearing;{{r|dwarf|page=19}} it has good resistance to [[Biology:Apple scab|scab]] and is a good [[Biology:Pollenizer|pollenizer]] for many varieties.{{r|dwarf|page=19}} The fruit stores well. It is juicy and crisp,{{r|nat}} and has some of the taste of Cox's, the coloration of Oldenburg and the shape of 'Golden Delicious'.{{r|dwarf}} The fruit is picked early in October.{{r|nat}}

'Pinova' is planted commercially in Europe. In the United States it is patented,{{r|dwarf}} and may be sold under the brand-name "Piñata".

== References ==
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<ref name=dwarf>Manfred Fischer, Christa Fischer (2002). [https://web.archive.org/web/20040306031239/http://www.idfta.org/cft/2002/january/page19-20.pdf Pinova Apple Cultivar]. ''The Compact Fruit Tree'' '''35''' (1): 19–20. Archived 6 March 2004.</ref>

<ref name=mol>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). [http://www.goffredo.ch/pseudo/HiDRAS_TTT.pdf 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}}</ref>

<ref name=nat>[http://www.nationalfruitcollection.org.uk/full2.php?id=4673&&fruit=apple Pinova]. National Fruit Collection. Accessed March 2016.</ref>

<ref name=obst>[https://books.google.com/books?id=c_xIAAAAYAAJ Mitteilungen des Obstbauversuchsringes des Alten Landes e. V. und der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Baumschulen im Obstbauversuchsring, Volume 57] (in German). p.&nbsp;100. Accessed April 2014.</ref>

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