Arkansas
syn. Arkansaw, Mammoth Black Twig
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Triploid. Originated near Rhea Mills, Arkansas, U.S.A. from seed sown in about 1833. Introduced in about 1868. Fruits have firm, cream flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed on body and at eye
- Fruit size
- large to medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Over colour
- flushed red
- Flesh colour
- tinged yellow
- Flesh texture
- fine, very firm
- Ground colour
- green to yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Globose
- Width
- 76.39 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 63.95 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium-high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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