Ashton Brown Jersey
Cider · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Grown at the National Fruit and Cider Institute, Long Ashton, Bristol in 1903. Trees were also grown in some Herefordshire orchards in the 1920s and 1930s. Trees are very slow coming into cropping. Fruits are small-medium in size with a sweet, astringent, woolly textured flesh. Produces a soft, full-bodied, medium bittersweet cider.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid November
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 8th May (full) · 15th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small
- Type
- Cider
- Crown
- very weak
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 56.37 mm
- Height
- 49.72 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Juiciness
- dry-medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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