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Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
An Italian variety known since the early 1900s. Fruits have firm, coarse flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 11th May (10%) · 15th May (full) · 24th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- small
- Fruit shape
- tall, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 46 mm
- Over colour
- occasional slight pink flush
- Russet type
- star shaped russet dots
- Flesh colour
- creamy white
- Fruit height
- 47 mm
- Skin texture
- greasy
- Flesh texture
- firm, coarse
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow to yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small-medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Oblong
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- strong
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- n/a
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- n/a
Source · National Fruit Collection
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