Frederick
Cider · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in the Forest of Dean, Monmouthshire in the 19th Century. Slow to come into cropping and crops tend to be rather irregular. The small to medium sized fruits have crisp, white, often tinged with red flesh with a sharp flavour but no astringency. Produces a
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 8th May (full) · 15th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small
- Type
- Cider
- Crown
- very weak
- Shape
- Globose
- Width
- 59.80 mm
- Height
- 48.20 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- high-very high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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