Devon Crimson Queen
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Received 1953. Origin: Received from Launceston, Cornwall.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late August
- Flowering
- 3rd May (10%) · 7th May (full) · 13th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed base to apex
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, convex, irregular
- Fruit width
- 66-83 mm
- Over colour
- almost entirely covered with bright deep red flush and stripes
- Russet type
- pale dots
- Flesh colour
- yellowish white, tinged red
- Fruit height
- 56-64 mm
- Skin texture
- thin, tough, very greasy
- Flesh texture
- soft
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Greasiness
- Strong
- Over colour
- Dark Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish green
- Over colour amount
- high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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