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Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Thought to have been raised by George Carpenter, Byfleet, Surrey, England. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1932. Fruits have coarse, soft flesh with a sweet to subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 3rd May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 15th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 87.00 mm
- Height
- 67.00 mm
- Ribbing
- very weak
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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