Kemp
syn. May Bloom
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in Ireland, possibly Ulster. It was known in 1837. Fruits have firm, coarse flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late August
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 13th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary
- Shape
- Flat
- Width
- 89.00 mm
- Height
- 64.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Brown
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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