Blue Pearmain
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Thought to have originated in U.S.A. It was known in the early 1800s. Received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1893 and a First Class Certificate in 1896. Fruits have somewhat dry, rather soft, coarse-textured flesh with a sweet, pleasant aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 70.00 mm
- Height
- 63.00 mm
- Over colour
- Dark Red
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Green
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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