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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