Hunter's Majestic
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised before 1914 by Miss E. Balding at Upwell, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. It was introduced in about 1928 by W. Hunter of Wisbech. Fruits have softish, coarse flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 85.00 mm
- Height
- 70.50 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- soft-medium
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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