Hereford Cross
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1913 at Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol by G.T. Spinks. Fruits have firm, crisp flesh with a fairly sweet and subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late August
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Flat
- Width
- 64.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 45.00 mm
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour pattern
- streaked
Source · National Fruit Collection
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