Golden Nugget
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1932 by C.J. Bishop, Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada. It was introduced in 1964. Fruits have a sweet, rich flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 16th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Fruit size
- small
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- absent
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 66.38 mm
- Height
- 64.42 mm
- Russet
- high
- Ribbing
- absent
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
- Over colour pattern
- mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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