Barnack Beauty
syn. Barnack, Barnacké jablko, Beckford Beauty, Piekna z Barnaku
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised at Barnack, Northamptonshire in about 1840 and introduced in about 1870 by Brown of Stamford. Received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1899 and a First Class Certificate in 1909. Fruits are sweet, crisp and juicy with a good flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 13th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Tree
- upright
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, apex broader than base, convex
- Fruit width
- 63 mm
- Over colour
- half orange-red flush and stripes
- Flesh colour
- creamy white
- Fruit height
- 70 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- very weak
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Ribbing
- very weak
- Firmness
- firm
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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