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Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Received 1958. From Cuneo, Italy.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- acid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- variable, intermediate, sometimes flat or tall, truncate-conic, convex, sometimes asymmetric
- Over colour
- slight orange flush, carmine streaks
- Russet type
- occassional russet
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Flesh texture
- firm, coarse
- Ground colour
- yellowish green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- strong
- Shape
- Globose
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- strong-very strong
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Brown
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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