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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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