Exeter Cross
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1924 by G.T. Spinks at Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol. It was named in 1953. Fruits have firm, crisp, juicy flesh with a sweet and refreshing flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early August
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid, moderately aromatic
- Ribbing
- ribbed on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 57-64 mm
- Over colour
- scarlet flush and stripes
- Flesh colour
- creamy white
- Fruit height
- 39-45 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- absent
- Shape
- Flat
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- very weak
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish green
- Over colour amount
- high
- Over colour pattern
- solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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