Durello
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
An apple of Italian origin. It was described in 1949 but is thought to be much older. Fruits have firm flesh with a sweet, subacid, slightly perfumed flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 13th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid, slightly perfumed
- Ribbing
- not ribbed
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 81 mm
- Over colour
- flushed red
- Flesh colour
- ivory white
- Fruit height
- 74 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small-medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Flat
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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