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Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Triploid. Raised by C.S. Close at Arlington, Virginia, U.S.A. It was selected in about 1925 and introduced in 1938. Fruits have soft flesh with little juice and a sweet but poor flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early August
- Flowering
- 2nd May (10%) · 6th May (full) · 13th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Conical
- Width
- 75.00 mm
- Height
- 72.50 mm
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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