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Gambafina

Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession

Thought to have originated in about 1900 near Carraglio, province of Cuneo, Italy. Fruits have soft, greenish white flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.

Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Picking time
Late October
Flowering
13th May (10%) · 18th May (full) · 24th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
Flavour
sweet, subacid
Ribbing
not ribbed
Fruit size
large
Fruit shape
flat, rectangular, convex
Fruit width
74 mm
Over colour
striped red
Russet type
dotted grey
Flesh colour
greenish white
Fruit height
58 mm
Flesh texture
soft
Ground colour
greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
Size
large
Type
Dessert
Crown
weak
Shape
Flat globose
Crunch
crisp
Russet
very low
Ribbing
weak-medium
Over colour
Red
Flesh colour
White
Ground colour
Green yellow
Over colour amount
medium-high
Over colour pattern
striped/mottled

Source · National Fruit Collection

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