Caroline Hopkins
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Found growing wild at Worcester, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. It was sent to the National Fruit Trials in 1956. Fruits have crisp, acid, slightly astringent flesh. This variety is said to root from cuttings and in South Africa is said to bloom and fruit twice in a year.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 28th April (10%) · 3rd May (full) · 10th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Culinary
- Shape
- Oblong
- Width
- 62.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 56.00 mm
- Ribbing
- medium-strong
- Firmness
- firm
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Greenish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- streaked
Source · National Fruit Collection
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