Cure
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in Normandy, France. It was described in 1947. Fruits have fine, hard flesh with a subacid, slightly bitter flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 16th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid, slightly bitter
- Ribbing
- ribbed on body
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex to straight
- Fruit width
- 83 mm
- Over colour
- flushed dull orange-brown and red, faint stripes
- Russet type
- patches of russet
- Flesh colour
- cream
- Fruit height
- 76 mm
- Skin texture
- pinkish scarf skin
- Flesh texture
- fine, hard,
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary
- Shape
- Oblong conical
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm-very firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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