Dillington Beauty
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Recorded 1872. Origin: Received from New Zealand. Very susceptible to bitter pit.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 15th May (full) · 22nd May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at apex and on body
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- flat, conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 81 mm
- Over colour
- striped and flushed red, pink dots at base
- Russet type
- some russet patches and dots
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 70 mm
- Flesh texture
- soft, coarse
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 76.41 mm
- Height
- 65.15 mm
- Russet
- medium-high
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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