Betty Geeson
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Thought to have originated from Worcestershire, England. It was introduced in 1854. Fruits have firm, tender flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 27th April (10%) · 30th April (full) · 9th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 70 mm
- Over colour
- flushed red
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 50 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm, tender
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Flat
- Width
- 78.70 mm
- Height
- 58.10 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Strong
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- low-medium
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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