Elton Beauty
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated at Ince Orchards, Chester. It was introduced by 1952. Fruits have soft, fine flesh with a subacid and aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 1st May (10%) · 7th May (full) · 14th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid, aromatic
- Ribbing
- not, or slightly ribbed
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic
- Fruit width
- 57-72 mm
- Over colour
- flushed orange red, streaked red
- Russet type
- rough russet around cavity
- Flesh colour
- white
- Fruit height
- 51-60 mm
- Flesh texture
- rather soft, fine
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- very weak
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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