Fall Russet
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
The original tree of this variety was planted in about 1880 in the USA. Fruits have crisp flesh with a sweet, subacid and slightly rich flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 29th April (10%) · 5th May (full) · 12th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid, slightly rich
- Ribbing
- sometimes slightly ribbed
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 57-63 mm
- Over colour
- flushed gold or orange
- Russet type
- some solid and patchy russet
- Flesh colour
- creamy yellow
- Fruit height
- 50-53 mm
- Flesh texture
- crisp
- Ground colour
- yellowish green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 60.92 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 57.27 mm
- Russet
- medium-high
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- washed out/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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