Cockpit
syn. Summer Cockpit, Yorkshire Cockpit
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in Yorkshire. First recorded in 1831. Fruits have coarse flesh with a slightly acid, almost astringent flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- slightly acid, astringent
- Ribbing
- ribbed on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 62 mm
- Over colour
- occasional slight orange flush
- Russet type
- russet dots
- Flesh colour
- cream
- Fruit height
- 50 mm
- Skin texture
- greasy
- Flesh texture
- coarse
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Culinary
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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