Morkrod
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
A sport of Gravenstein having red stripes. Originated in either Denmark or Sweden. It was received by the National Fruit Trials in 1960. Fruits have crisp, rather coarse-textured, juicy flesh with a pleasant mixture of sweetness and acidity with a distinctive flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 27th April (10%) · 3rd May (full) · 10th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Crunch
- medium
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- strong
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium-high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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