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Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession

Raised at the Plant Breeding Laboratory, Wageningen, The Netherlands. It was received by the National Fruit Trials in 1955. Fruits have fairly crisp, fine flesh with a slightly acid flavour.

Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Picking time
Mid October
Flowering
11th May (10%) · 18th May (full) · 24th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
Size
medium-large
Type
Dessert
Shape
Truncate conical
Width
70.00 mm
Crunch
crisp
Height
60.50 mm
Russet
very low
Ribbing
medium
Coarseness
fine
Over colour
Pink
Flesh colour
Cream
Ground colour
Green yellow
Over colour amount
high-very high
Over colour pattern
striped

Source · National Fruit Collection

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