Autumn Harvest
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Thought to have originated in Westmorland. Recorded in 1934. Fruits have firm, tender, coarse, dry flesh with a subacid flavour. Flesh tends to brown very quickly once cut.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late August
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 15th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, or tall, or flat, rectangular, occasionally truncate-conic, convex to almost straight
- Fruit width
- 65-74 mm
- Over colour
- occasional slight pinkish buff flush
- Russet type
- many russet dots
- Flesh colour
- browns quickly
- Fruit height
- 56-63 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm, tender, coarse, dry
- Ground colour
- golden yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Oblong
- Width
- 70.55 mm
- Height
- 62.22 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- dry
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- n/a
- Flesh colour
- Greenish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- n/a
Source · National Fruit Collection
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