Clopton Red
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1946 by Justin Brooke at Clopton Hall, Wickhambrook, Suffolk and introduced in 1961. Fruits have firm flesh with a sweet, rich flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 12th May (10%) · 18th May (full) · 25th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, rich
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Over colour
- flushed red
- Flesh colour
- creamy white
- Flesh texture
- firm
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small-medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- absent
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- very weak
- Firmness
- soft-medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- low-medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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