Mobbs Royal
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated either in Australia or New Zealand. It was known in Australia in 1868. Fruits have firm, fine, very white tinged green flesh with an acid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 2nd May (10%) · 7th May (full) · 14th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- acid
- Ribbing
- ribbed on body and at eye
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 82 mm
- Over colour
- flushed orange to pinkish red, some fruits with no flush
- Russet type
- russet dots
- Flesh colour
- very white, tinged green
- Fruit height
- 66 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm, fine
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- medium-strong
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- dry-medium
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish green
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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