Moti
syn. Moate, Motate
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Recorded 1934. From Apuseni Mountains, Romania. Grown in gardens of Transylvania, particularly in the north-west, and sometimes in commercial orchards.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 16th May (10%) · 22nd May (full) · 30th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye, sometimes ribbed on body
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 54-78 mm
- Over colour
- flushed red
- Russet type
- dotted
- Flesh colour
- greenish or yellowish
- Fruit height
- 42-63 mm
- Flesh texture
- very firm
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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