Box Apple
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Received by NFT 1955. From Cornwall, England.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late August
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet to subacid
- Ribbing
- prominent ribs at eye, ribbed on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 59-69 mm
- Over colour
- slight pale orange flush
- Russet type
- a little russet
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 44-52 mm
- Skin texture
- greasy
- Flesh texture
- soft
- Ground colour
- yellowish green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Flat
- Width
- 67.28 mm
- Height
- 52.56 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Greasiness
- Strong
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish green
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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