Folkestone
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Received 1964. Origin: Received from Chandler & Dunn, Ash, Kent.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late August
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 15th May (full) · 23rd May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, slightly subacid
- Ribbing
- sometimes slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- small to medium
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 51-61 mm
- Over colour
- almost entirely flushed deep bright red
- Russet type
- russet dots, russet in cavity, sometimes on base
- Flesh colour
- creamy white, sometimes tinged red under skin
- Fruit height
- 38-48 mm
- Skin texture
- smooth, waxy, thin, tender
- Flesh texture
- crisp, tender
- Ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small-medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Juiciness
- dry
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Dark Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- high
- Over colour pattern
- mottled/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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