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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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