Gloucester Cross
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1913 by G.T.Spinks at Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol. Fruits have soft, coarse, subacid flesh with a rich, aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- small-medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- high-very high
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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