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Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Recorded 1934. From Moldova, Romania.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- slightly sweet, subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- tall, rectangular, convex to straight
- Fruit width
- 86 mm
- Over colour
- blotched and streaked pinkish red
- Russet type
- dotted and flecked with russet
- Flesh colour
- creamy white
- Fruit height
- 82 mm
- Flesh texture
- crisp, coarse
- Ground colour
- yellowish green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Pink
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- mottled/washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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