Gooseberry
syn. Golding, Gooseberry Apple, Gooseberry Pippin
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in England, probably Kent. It was first recorded in 1831. Fruits have coarse-textured, fairly juicy flesh with a very acid and rather astringent flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 23rd May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed on body, prominently at eye
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- variable, intermediate to flat or tall, rectangular to truncateconic or conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 76 mm
- Over colour
- tinged brown
- Russet type
- dotted
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 70 mm
- Flesh texture
- very tender
- Ground colour
- deep green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- medium-strong
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 79.12 mm
- Crunch
- crumbly
- Height
- 67.25 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- strong
- Juiciness
- dry-medium
- Over colour
- Brown
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish green
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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