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Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1935 at the Institute for Horticultural Plant Breeding, Wageningen, The Netherlands. Fruits are juicy with a slightly subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 16th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- slightly subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye, broad ribs on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex to straight
- Fruit width
- 62 mm
- Over colour
- flushed and striped dark brownish red
- Russet type
- occasional coarse russet patch
- Flesh colour
- whitish, tinged green
- Fruit height
- 62 mm
- Flesh texture
- fine, dense
- Ground colour
- golden yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 67.03 mm
- Height
- 60.10 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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