Castle Major
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in Kent. Described in 1875. Fruits have soft flesh with a slightly subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 94.00 mm
- Height
- 83.00 mm
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Over colour
- Brown
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
Source · National Fruit Collection
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