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Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession

Raised in 1935 at Aomori Apple Experiment Station, Japan. Fruits have firm, crisp, greenish white flesh with a subacid and aromatic flavour.

Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Picking time
Late October
Flowering
5th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
Flavour
subacid, aromatic
Fruit size
medium
Fruit shape
intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex to straight
Fruit width
57-63 mm
Over colour
flushed pale orange red, streaked darker red
Flesh colour
greenish white
Fruit height
51-57 mm
Flesh texture
firm, crisp
Ground colour
pale greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
Size
medium-large
Type
Dessert
Crown
medium-strong
Shape
Globose
Crunch
crisp-very crisp
Russet
low
Ribbing
strong
Firmness
firm
Over colour
Red
Flesh colour
White
Ground colour
Whitish yellow
Over colour amount
high
Over colour pattern
striped/mottled/solid flush

Source · National Fruit Collection

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