Measday's Favourite
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Received 1939. Origin: Received from George Bunyard and Company Ltd., Maidstone, Kent.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- prominent ribs base to apex
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- tall to intermediate, truncate-conic, straight
- Fruit width
- 76 mm
- Over colour
- sometimes flushed pale red
- Russet type
- russet dots
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 76 mm
- Flesh texture
- fairly crisp, tender
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 76.04 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 64.08 mm
- Russet
- low-medium
- Ribbing
- strong
- Juiciness
- dry
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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