Democrat
syn. Duffy's Seedling, Tasma
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Discovered in about 1900 growing in the orchard of J.D. Duffy near Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is known as Tasma in New Zealand. Fruits have very firm, coarse-textured, juicy, sweet flesh but lacks in flavour. In Australia it is said to have been stored for over twelve months.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 8th May (full) · 16th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 57.00 mm
- Height
- 45.00 mm
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Greenish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- high-very high
Source · National Fruit Collection
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