Clarke's Royal
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
A full red coloured clone of Cox's Orange Pippin. Originally selected in 1984 by Mr P. Clarke. Trees are more precocious than Cox and also less vigorous. Fruits are juicy and sweet with a rich, aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 28th April (10%) · 30th April (full) · 9th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 71.23 mm
- Height
- 60.54 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- soft-medium
- Juiciness
- dry-medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- high-very high
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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