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Legana

Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession

Raised in about 1940 by J. Bulman, Legana, Tasmania, Australia. Fruits have firm, fine flesh with a sweet, subacid flavour.

Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Picking time
Late October
Flowering
8th May (10%) · 13th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
Flavour
sweet, subacid
Ribbing
slightly ribbed at eye
Fruit size
medium
Fruit shape
flat, truncateconic, convex
Fruit width
58 mm
Over colour
flushed dark red
Russet type
sometimes netted russet
Flesh colour
greenish white
Fruit height
50 mm
Flesh texture
firm, fine
Ground colour
yellowish green
NFC characterisation
Size
medium
Type
Dessert
Crown
weak-medium
Shape
Globose conical
Width
64.69 mm
Crunch
crisp
Height
57.78 mm
Russet
very low
Ribbing
weak-medium
Firmness
firm
Coarseness
fine
Over colour
Pink
Flesh colour
White
Ground colour
Whitish yellow
Over colour amount
low-medium
Over colour pattern
striped/washed out

Source · National Fruit Collection

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