Ard Cairn Russet
syn. Ard Cairn
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Discovered by Baylor Hartland in Cork, Ireland in about 1890. Received the Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1910. Fruits are firm, sweet with little juice. Flavour is slightly aromatic.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 65.00 mm
- Height
- 65.00 mm
- Russet
- high-very high
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- dry
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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