Geeveston Fanny
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Thought to have originated at Geeveston, Tasmania, Australia where the oldest known tree grew in the orchard of James Evans in 1880. Fruits have crisp flesh with a subacid and aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid, aromatic
- Ribbing
- not ribbed
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 57 mm
- Over colour
- three-quarters flushed pale red with darker stripes
- Russet type
- dark dots
- Fruit height
- 49 mm
- Flesh texture
- crisp
- Ground colour
- pale lemon and light green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- absent
- Firmness
- firm-very firm
- Over colour
- Red
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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