Megumi
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 2 accessions
Raised in 1931 at Aomori Apple Experiment Station, Japan. It was named in 1948. Fruits have firm, crisp flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession 1953-009 · Megumi
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 12th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye and base
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 63-57 mm
- Over colour
- flushed dull orange brown, streaked red
- Flesh colour
- cream, tinged yellow
- Fruit height
- 57 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- Ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small-medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Oblong
- Crunch
- crisp
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Accession 1967-086 · Megumi
- Picking time
- early october
- Flowering
- 12th May (10%) · 17th May (full) · 25th May (petal fall)
No descriptor data recorded for this accession.
Source · National Fruit Collection
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