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Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in about 1934 by J.H.Kidd at Greytown Wairarapa, New Zealand. It was named in 1965. Fruits have firm, crisp, fine-textured, juicy flesh with a sweet and good aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 27th April (10%) · 30th April (full) · 8th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, slightly subacid
- Ribbing
- strongly ribbed at eye, ribbed on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 62-70 mm
- Over colour
- bright orange-red flush and deeper stripes
- Russet type
- russet at base, occasionally on body
- Flesh colour
- yellow
- Fruit height
- 59-65 mm
- Skin texture
- smooth, rather tough
- Flesh texture
- crisp
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 65.08 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 59.79 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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