Linda
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised at the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada. It first fruited in 1908 and introduced in about 1925. Fruits have fairly crisp, tender, white flesh with a sweet, subacid and aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 2nd May (10%) · 7th May (full) · 13th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- fairly sweet, subacid, aromatic
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Over colour
- deep carmine flush and stripes
- Flesh colour
- white
- Flesh texture
- fine, fairly crisp and tender,
- Ground colour
- pale yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- absent
- Shape
- Globose
- Width
- 70.08 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 62.66 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- absent
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Medium
- 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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