Eynsham Dumpling
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by F.W.Wastie, Eynsham, Oxford. It was received by the National Fruit Trials in 1960. Fruits have firm flesh with a rather acid and a little rich flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 13th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- rather acid a little rich
- Ribbing
- not ribbed
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 63-71 mm
- Russet type
- extensive solid and patchy russet
- Flesh colour
- creamy white, green veined
- Fruit height
- 54-60 mm
- Skin texture
- thick, tough
- Flesh texture
- firm, fine
- Ground colour
- yellowish green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- very weak
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 93.97 mm
- Crunch
- crumbly
- Height
- 78.53 mm
- Russet
- low-medium
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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