Hounslow Wonder
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Introduced by Spooner, nurseryman of Hounslow, Middlesex. It was recorded in 1910 when it also received an Award of Merit from the RHS. Fruits have fine, firm, crisp flesh with an acid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Culinary
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 68.50 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 54.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Brown
- Flesh colour
- Greenish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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