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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