Newton Wonder
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by Taylor at King's Newton, Melbourne, Derbyshire, England. Introduced in about 1887 when it also received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society. Fruits have rather coarse-textured, moderately juicy flesh with a subacid flavour. Cooks very well.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- acid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 82 mm
- Over colour
- scarlet flush and stripes
- Flesh colour
- yellow
- Fruit height
- 63 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- Ground colour
- bright yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Crunch
- crisp
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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