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Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by W. Seabrook & Sons, Chelmsford, Essex and introduced by them in 1921. Fruits have soft flesh with a slightly acid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late August
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 84.00 mm
- Height
- 76.50 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Greenish
- Ground colour
- Orange
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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