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Chad's Favourite

Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession

Raised by M.B. Crane at the John Innes Horticultural Institute, Merton, London. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1939 and named in 1952. Fruits have coarse, soft flesh with a sweet subacid, aromatic flavour.

Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Picking time
Early October
Flowering
5th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
Size
medium-large
Type
Dessert
Shape
Truncate conical
Width
68.50 mm
Height
59.50 mm
Ribbing
weak-medium
Firmness
soft
Coarseness
coarse
Over colour
Red
Flesh colour
White
Ground colour
Yellow
Over colour amount
high
Over colour pattern
striped

Source · National Fruit Collection

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