Autumn Arctic
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated from U.S.A. where it arose from a pile of chicken house litter on a farm in Vermont. Fruits have sweet, soft flesh with a little flavour. It is reputed to have some resistance to scab.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- soft-medium
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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