Golden Knob
syn. Golden Nobb, Kentish Golden Knob, Old Lady, Old Maid
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated at Enmore Castle, Somerset. It has been grown since the late 1700s. Fruits have firm flesh with a sweet and nutty flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- small
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Width
- 42.00 mm
- Height
- 35.50 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- absent
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- very fine
- Over colour
- Brown
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
Source · National Fruit Collection
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