Gascoyne's Scarlet
syn. Cramoisi de Gascoyne, Cramoisie de Gascogne, Cramoisie de Gascoigne, Friedrich August von Sachesen, Gascoigne's Scarlet, Gascoigne's Seedling, Gascoignes Scharlachapfel, Gascoine, Gascoygne's Scarlet, Gascoygne's Scarlet Seedling, Gascoygne's Seedling, Gascoynes Scarlet, Gascoynes Scarlet Seedling, Gascoynes Scharlachroter, Gascoynes Scharlachroter Samling, Malinovoe Gaskonskoe, Rhum von England, Schoner von Rusdorf
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by Mr Gascoyne at Bapchild Court, Sittingbourne, Kent. It was introduced in 1871 by nurseryman G. Bunyard & Co., Maidstone, Kent. Received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1887. Fruits have firm, fine-textured, slightly juicy, sweet flesh with very little flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 15th May (full) · 22nd May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid perfumed
- Ribbing
- ribbed on body and at eye
- Fruit size
- large to medium
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 66-83 mm
- Over colour
- nearly covered dull pink and bright scarlet
- Russet type
- dotted
- Flesh colour
- white, sometimes tinged pink
- Fruit height
- 51-64 mm
- Skin texture
- bloom
- Flesh texture
- fine, firm, dry
- Ground colour
- pale yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Width
- 82.20 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 70.74 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- dry
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Pink
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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