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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