Cornish Honeypin
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Received 1955. From Cornwall, England.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 16th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 54-63 mm
- Over colour
- a few pink streaks
- Russet type
- russet dots
- Flesh colour
- creamy white, tinged yellow
- Fruit height
- 44-55 mm
- Flesh texture
- soft, fine
- Ground colour
- deep yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small-medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- n/a
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- n/a
Source · National Fruit Collection
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