Golden Noble
syn. Blagorodnoe zheltoe, Drap d'Or, Edelapfel gelbe, Edelapfel gelber, Galben Nobil, Gelber Edel, Gelber Edel Apfel, Gelber Edelapfel, Gelber Schneibenapfel, Glassapfel, Glassreinette, Glow of the West, Golden Stanger, Golden Stranger, Gough's Seedling, Guldnobel, Ivanhoe, Jioltoe blagorodnoe, John Peel, Lady Richardson, Lord Clyde, Lord Glyde, Lord Stanwick, Mela nobile gialla, Peper's Fall, Plattapfel, Reper's Fall, Rutlandshire Foundling, Szlachetna, Terraughtie Short Meg, UslechtilT zlute, Wachsapfel, Zheltoe blagorodnoe, Zitronenapfel, Zlute spanile, Zlute uclechtile
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Discovered by Patrick Flanagan, head gardener to Sir Thomas Harr, Stowe Hall, Downham, Norfolk. It was mentioned by William Forsyth in 1803. It was introduced by Patrick Flanagan to the Horticultural Society of London in 1820. Fruits are a little soft, fairly fine-textured, very juicy, and acid. Cooks extremely well, breaking up completely.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 10th May (10%) · 16th May (full) · 24th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- acid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 70-76 mm
- Russet type
- occasional russet
- Flesh colour
- white
- Fruit height
- 57-70 mm
- Flesh texture
- coarse, firm, crisp
- Ground colour
- golden yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 75.98 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 65.30 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- very weak
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- n/a
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- n/a
Source · National Fruit Collection
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