Florina
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Complex parentage involving Rome Beauty, Golden Delicious, Starking, Simpsons Giant Limb and Jonathan. A scab resistant variety raised at the Station de Recherches d'Arboriculture Fruitiere, Angers, France. Fruits tend to be rather tart and acid.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 2nd May (10%) · 5th May (full) · 14th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Globose
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- low-medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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