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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