Green Purnell
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in Worcestershire. It was received by the National Fruit Trials in 1945 but is believed to be much older. Fruits have fine, creamy white flesh with a slightly sweet and subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid, slightly sweet
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic to conic, convex to straight
- Fruit width
- 71-81 mm
- Over colour
- sometimes dull orange-red flush faintly striped
- Russet type
- scattered stellate dots, traces of rough russet extending from cavity
- Flesh colour
- creamy white
- Fruit height
- 58-73 mm
- Skin texture
- greasy, thin, tender
- Flesh texture
- fine
- Ground colour
- yellowish green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Globose
- Width
- 86.45 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 73.78 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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