Carlton
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1912 by Richard Wellington at New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA. Fruits have firm, fine flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late August
- Flowering
- 1st May (10%) · 6th May (full) · 14th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed base to apex
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, truncate-conic, convex, sometimes straight
- Fruit width
- 54-61 mm
- Over colour
- flushed brownish red, streaked red
- Russet type
- russet dots
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 52-61 mm
- Flesh texture
- fine
- Ground colour
- dull yellowish green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 86.10 mm
- Height
- 78.03 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- dry
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium-high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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