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Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
A more highly coloured sport of McIntosh. Received via Scotland from Yugoslavia. It first fruited in Scotland in 1960.Fruits have rather soft, very juicy flesh with a sweet and pleasant vinous flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 8th May (full) · 15th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish green
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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