Green Roland
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in Norfolk. It was described in 1945. Fruits have hard flesh with a slightly acid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 7th May (full) · 15th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- slightly acid
- Ribbing
- not ribbed
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- tall, rectangular, convex
- Over colour
- flushed and striped purplish red
- Skin texture
- white bloom
- Flesh texture
- hard
- Ground colour
- bright green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Oblong conical
- Width
- 78.64 mm
- Height
- 71.86 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- firm-very firm
- Over colour
- Red
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
Source · National Fruit Collection
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