Dick's Favourite
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Thought to have been raised in the late 1800s by Carless, foreman at Rowe's Nurseries, Worcester. Fruits are crisp with an acid flavour. Cooks well.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- very weak
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 81.02 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 69.98 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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