Bancroft
syn. Bankroft
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in Ottawa, Canada by the Division of Horticulture Experimental Farm. It was selected in 1930 and introduced in about 1935. Fruits have firm, greenish white flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 2nd May (10%) · 7th May (full) · 13th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Tree
- spreading
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at apex, slightly ribbed on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 67 mm
- Over colour
- striped red, nearly covered with dark red
- Russet type
- netted and dotted russet
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 56 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm, fine
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 78.90 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 71.41 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium-high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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