Green Custard
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Received 1941. Origin: Received from J. Cheal, nurserymen, Crawley, Sussex.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- slightly subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- tall to intermediate, conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 72-102 mm
- Over colour
- sometimes faint orange flush
- Russet type
- russet on base
- Flesh colour
- white to cream
- Fruit height
- 71-92 mm
- Skin texture
- greasy
- Flesh texture
- soft
- Ground colour
- yellowish green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Ellipsoid
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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