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Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1898 at the Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada. It was selected in 1916 and introduced in 1921. Fruits have soft, white tinged pink flesh with a sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 30th April (10%) · 5th May (full) · 13th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 74.00 mm
- Height
- 60.00 mm
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- soft
- Over colour
- Dark Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- high-very high
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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