Fall Harvey
syn. Harvey
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in Essex County, Massachusetts, USA. It was first recorded in 1838. Fruits have rather coarse, crisp flesh with a rich, subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- rich, subacid
- Ribbing
- somewhat ribbed at stalk
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Over colour
- sometimes flushed
- Flesh colour
- whitish or tinged yellow
- Flesh texture
- rather coarse, crisp
- Ground colour
- pale yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Width
- 90.88 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 73.63 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Juiciness
- dry
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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