Alfa 68
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1937 at the Horticultural Research Station, Alnarp, Sweden. It was introduced in 1954. Fruits have firm, tender, juicy, acid flesh, with a good flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- very weak
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- low-medium
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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