Fireside
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated at Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station, Excelsior, USA, by Charles Haralson. It was selected in 1917 and introduced commercially in 1943. Fruits have firm, crisp flesh with a sweet subacid, aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 87.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 70.00 mm
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- medium-coarse
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Greenish
- Ground colour
- Green
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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