Improved Cockpit
syn. Cockpit Improved
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
A larger form of Cockpit, first recorded in 1902. Fruits have fairly soft, coarse flesh with a subacid and a little sweet, insipid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 13th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid, a little sweet, insipid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 64-76 mm
- Over colour
- flushed orange and pale red mottling
- Russet type
- sometimes a little russet
- Flesh colour
- whitish
- Fruit height
- 51-70 mm
- Flesh texture
- fairly soft, coarse
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Shape
- Oblong
- Russet
- very low
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Yellow
Source · National Fruit Collection
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