Golden Spire
syn. Tom Matthews
Culinary / Cider · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Found in about 1850 in Lancashire by Richard Smith of Worcester who also introduced it. Fruits have coarse, crisp flesh with an acid and astringent flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 30th April (10%) · 5th May (full) · 12th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Culinary / Cider
- Shape
- Ellipsoid
- Width
- 63.50 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 67.50 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- strong
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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