Collins
syn. Apple of Commerce, Champion, Champion Red, Collins Red, Collins' Red, Commerce, Commercio, Coss Champion, Coss's Champion, Pomme du Commerce, Torgovoe
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated 1865 approx. From Arkansas, Fayetteville, U.S.A..
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 22nd May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid to sweetish
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- variable, flat to tall, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 64-75 mm
- Over colour
- crimson flecks
- Flesh colour
- greenish or yellowish white
- Fruit height
- 54-67 mm
- Skin texture
- tough
- Flesh texture
- very firm, fine
- Ground colour
- golden yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 67.48 mm
- Height
- 59.62 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm-very firm
- Juiciness
- dry-medium
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- low-medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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