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Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in France. Described in 1948. Fruits have fine, greenish white flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 10th May (10%) · 16th May (full) · 22nd May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- small to medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate to tall, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 48-60 mm
- Over colour
- flushed pink
- Russet type
- dotted and patched with russet
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 45-53 mm
- Skin texture
- slightly rough, thick, tough
- Flesh texture
- fine
- Ground colour
- pale yellowish green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- absent
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 66.65 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 57.41 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- absent
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- low-medium
- Over colour pattern
- washed out/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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