Murasaki
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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