Henry Clay
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in the USA. It was received by the National Fruit Trials in 1951. Fruits have soft, greenish white flesh with a slightly acid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early August
- Flowering
- 29th April (10%) · 4th May (full) · 11th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- slightly acid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, truncate-conic to rectangular, often assymetric
- Fruit width
- 63-69 mm
- Over colour
- flushed pinkish orange
- Russet type
- russet dots and occasional patches
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 51-58 mm
- Skin texture
- greasy
- Flesh texture
- soft
- Ground colour
- green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- striped/washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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