Cheddar Cross
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1916 by G.T.Spinks at Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol. Introduced in 1949. Fruits have firm, fine-textured flesh which is somewhat acid with little flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late August
- Flowering
- 2nd May (10%) · 8th May (full) · 13th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 60.00 mm
- Height
- 50.00 mm
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green
Source · National Fruit Collection
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