Epicurean
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
A more highly coloured sport of Epicure. It originated with G.A. Maclean, Kingston Bagpuize, Berkshire. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1953. Fruits have moderately firm and juicy flesh with a refreshing flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late August
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 14th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Type
- Dessert
- Russet
- very low
- Over colour
- Red
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- high
- Over colour pattern
- streaked
Source · National Fruit Collection
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