Munster Tulip
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in Ireland. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1950. Fruits have firm, tender, fine, white flesh with a slightly acid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- slightly acid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye, slightly on body
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic to conic, convex, asymmetric
- Fruit width
- 59-71 mm
- Over colour
- flushed orange to bright red, streaked and flecked carmine
- Russet type
- occasional russet
- Flesh colour
- white
- Fruit height
- 48-55 mm
- Skin texture
- smooth, tough
- Flesh texture
- firm, tender, fine
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Width
- 65.80 mm
- Height
- 52.49 mm
- Russet
- low-medium
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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