Nelson's Favourite
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Received 1958. Origin: Received from Kendal, Westmorland.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 15th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- acid
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic to conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 64 mm
- Over colour
- flushed orange-red, streaked and flecked pinkish red
- Russet type
- russet dots
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 55 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm, rather coarse
- Ground colour
- dull yellowish green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Crunch
- crumbly
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- low-medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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