Brighton
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Recorded 1928. Origin: Received from New Zealand.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, rich, slightly subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- tall, conic, concave to convex
- Fruit width
- 54-67 mm
- Over colour
- sometimes pink flush or streaks
- Russet type
- a little netted russet, russet at cavity and basin
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 52-64 mm
- Skin texture
- rough, thick, tough
- Flesh texture
- fine
- Ground colour
- green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small-medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish green
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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