Chaxhill Red
Dessert / Cider · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by Mr Bennett of Chaxhill, Westbury-on-Severn. Recorded in 1873. Received a First Class Certificate for cider in 1873 at Gloucester. Fruits have tender flesh with a mild subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 12th May (10%) · 17th May (full) · 26th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- miId subacid
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 62-69 mm
- Over colour
- almost entirely flushed deep crimson, streaked deeper red
- Russet type
- some russet
- Flesh colour
- cream
- Fruit height
- 53-59 mm
- Flesh texture
- tender
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert / Cider
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Globose
- Width
- 62.70 mm
- Height
- 52.33 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- very weak
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish green
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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