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Barnack Beauty Sport

Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession

A more highly coloured sport of Barnack Beauty which was discovered in 1944 by George Lamb, Swanley, Kent. Fruits, like Barnack Beauty, are sweet, crisp and juicy with a good flavour.

Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Picking time
Early October
Flowering
6th May (10%) · 13th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
Over colour
half covered with deep scarlet, no stripes
Ground colour
yellow
NFC characterisation
Size
small-medium
Type
Dessert
Crown
very weak
Shape
Globose conical
Crunch
crisp
Russet
low
Ribbing
very weak
Greasiness
Medium
Over colour
Red
Flesh colour
Cream
Ground colour
Whitish yellow
Over colour amount
medium
Over colour pattern
mottled/solid flush

Source · National Fruit Collection

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