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Bedford Red

Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession

Received by the National Fruit Trials from Yugoslavia via Scotland. It first fruited in Scotland in 1960. Fruits have sweet, yellow flesh.

Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Picking time
Mid October
Flowering
7th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 22nd May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
Size
medium-large
Type
Dessert
Crown
medium
Shape
Flat globose
Russet
low
Ribbing
medium
Greasiness
Medium
Over colour
Orange
Flesh colour
White
Ground colour
Yellow
Over colour amount
high
Over colour pattern
striped/mottled

Source · National Fruit Collection

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