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Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession

Raised at the University of Minnesota Fruit Breeding Farm, Excelsior. It was introduced in 1950. Fruits have sweet, crisp, juicy flesh.

Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Picking time
Early September
Flowering
4th May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
Flavour
sweet, subacid
Ribbing
ribbed at eye and on body
Fruit size
medium
Fruit shape
flat to intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
Fruit width
66 mm
Over colour
flushed, streaked and blotched purplish red
Flesh colour
pale cream
Fruit height
57 mm
Skin texture
waxy
Flesh texture
soft
Ground colour
yellowish green
NFC characterisation
Size
large
Type
Dessert
Crown
medium-strong
Shape
Broad globose conical
Width
73.60 mm
Height
59.18 mm
Russet
absent
Ribbing
medium
Firmness
soft
Juiciness
juicy
Coarseness
fine
Greasiness
Medium
Over colour
Red
Flesh colour
Cream
Ground colour
Whitish yellow
Over colour amount
medium
Over colour pattern
striped

Source · National Fruit Collection

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