Kilkenny Pearmain
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in Ireland. It was recorded in 1831. Fruits have fine, tender, dry flesh with a sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 60.50 mm
- Height
- 51.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Juiciness
- dry
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour pattern
- streaked
Source · National Fruit Collection
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