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Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1945 at New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, New York. It was named and introduced in 1966. Fruits have crisp flesh with a subacid and aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 16th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Crunch
- crisp
- Ribbing
- very weak
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Over colour amount
- very high
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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