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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