Lady Hopetown
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Received by NFT 1950.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- slightly acid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 70 mm
- Over colour
- occassional brownish red flush
- Flesh colour
- pale cream
- Fruit height
- 57 mm
- Skin texture
- greasy
- Flesh texture
- firm, fine, crisp
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium-strong
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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