Acklam Russet
syn. Acklam's Russet, Aclam Russet, Aclam's Russet, Aclemy Russet, Wheeler's Russet
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated at Acklam, Yorkshire. Recorded in 1768. Fruits have a firm, greenish-white flesh with a sweet to subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet to subacid
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 60 mm
- Russet type
- almost entirely covered with russet
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 50 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm
- Ground colour
- pale green-yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Flat
- Width
- 68.98 mm
- Height
- 55.23 mm
- Russet
- high-very high
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- n/a
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green
- Over colour amount
- absent
Source · National Fruit Collection
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