Hector MacDonald
syn. Hector McDonald
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised at Welford Park, Newbury, Berkshire, by Charles Ross and introduced in 1906 by Pearson of Nottingham. It was awarded an Award of Merit by the RHS in 1904. Fruits have very crisp, juicy, acid flesh. A good cooker.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 30th April (10%) · 6th May (full) · 10th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Culinary
- Shape
- Flat
- Width
- 70.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 51.00 mm
- Ribbing
- absent
- Firmness
- firm-very firm
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Brown
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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