Golden Royal
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Received by NFT 1950. From Ireland. Grown in Ireland.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid August
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- rather acid
- Ribbing
- strongly ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 64 mm
- Over colour
- sometimes flushed gold or pink
- Russet type
- russet dots and veining
- Flesh colour
- white
- Fruit height
- 51 mm
- Skin texture
- sticky
- Flesh texture
- fine, soft
- Ground colour
- yellowish white
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium-strong
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 72.44 mm
- Height
- 64.48 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- strong
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Pink
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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