Newport Cross
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1920 at Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol by G.T. Spinks. Fruits have firm, rather coarse, dry flesh with an insipid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 3rd May (10%) · 7th May (full) · 14th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Flat
- Width
- 66.00 mm
- Height
- 51.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- dry
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Brown
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
Source · National Fruit Collection
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