Decio
syn. Deci, Decio nostrano, Dezi
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
This variety is said to date from the time of Attila (c. 450 AD) and to have been brought to England by Roman general Ezio from Latium, Italy. Fruits have firm, fine flesh with a slightly sweet, slightly subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 1st May (10%) · 4th May (full) · 13th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- slightly sweet, slightly subacid
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- small to medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 50-63 mm
- Over colour
- sometimes slight orange flush and red streaks
- Russet type
- russet at base and apex, netting on body
- Flesh colour
- creamy white
- Fruit height
- 42-57 mm
- Skin texture
- smooth, thin, tough
- Flesh texture
- firm, fine
- Ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 54.68 mm
- Height
- 47.27 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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