Glenton
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised at Ottawa Central Experimental Farm, Ontario, Canada. It was named in 1911 and introduced in 1946. Fruits have softish flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 14th May (10%) · 18th May (full) · 24th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Fruit size
- large
- Over colour
- flushed red
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 79.02 mm
- Height
- 68.13 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- low-medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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