Lavina
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
A chance seedling grown in the Modenese, Italy. Described in 1949 but thought to be much older. Fruits have firm, whitish flesh with a sweet, aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 13th May (10%) · 18th May (full) · 24th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Tree
- partial tip bearer
- Flavour
- sweet, aromatic
- Ribbing
- broad ribs on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- tall, conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 52-56 mm
- Flesh colour
- whitish
- Fruit height
- 46-50 mm
- Flesh texture
- very firm
- Ground colour
- whitish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 64.35 mm
- Height
- 57.98 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- dry
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Over colour
- Pink
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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