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Foulkes' Foremost

Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession

Raised by F. Foulkes, Headington, Oxford from seed sown in 1938. Fruits have rather soft flesh with a sweet, subacid flavour.

Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Picking time
Early September
Flowering
3rd May (10%) · 7th May (full) · 16th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
Size
medium-large
Type
Dessert
Shape
Broad globose conical
Width
70.00 mm
Height
56.50 mm
Russet
low
Ribbing
weak
Firmness
soft
Over colour
Brown
Flesh colour
Yellowish
Ground colour
Green yellow
Over colour pattern
streaked

Source · National Fruit Collection

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