Mabbott's Pearmain
syn. Canterbury, Mabbot's Pearmain, Mabbut's Pearmain, Parmaene von Mabbott, Parmane von Mabot, Parmane von Mabott, Pearmain de Mabbot, Pearmain de Mabbott
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in Kent, England. It was first described in 1883. Introduced by Lewis Killick of Langley. Fruits have fairly crisp, a little coarse-textured, juicy flesh with a slightly acid, pleasant aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, aromatic
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 57 mm
- Over colour
- flushed orange-red
- Russet type
- dotted with light russet
- Flesh colour
- white, tinged orange
- Fruit height
- 57 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm, tender
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Oblong
- Russet
- very low
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour pattern
- solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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