Dredge's Fame
syn. Fame, Winter Pearmain
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Introduced by William Dredge, Wishford, Salisbury. First recorded in 1802. Fruits have firm, crisp flesh with a sweet, subacid and aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 3rd May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 76.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 70.00 mm
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Yellow
Source · National Fruit Collection
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