Great Expectations
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated from Ireland. It was described in 1951. Fruits become very greasy. Flesh is firm and crisp and has a sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 14th May (10%) · 19th May (full) · 26th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid, aromatic
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat
- Russet type
- present
- Flesh texture
- firm
- Ground colour
- red
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Russet
- low-medium
- Ribbing
- weak
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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