Nonpareil
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Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Thought to be of French origin. It was introduced into England in the mid 1500s. Fruits have greenish white, fine-textured, juicy flesh with a slightly acid and pleasant aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- vinous, rich, aromatic
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate to flat, truncate-conic, convex, asymmetric
- Fruit width
- 55 mm
- Over colour
- brown-red flush
- Russet type
- russet dots and patches
- Flesh colour
- greenish
- Fruit height
- 50 mm
- Flesh texture
- tender, crisp
- Ground colour
- yellowish green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 59.15 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 46.16 mm
- Russet
- high-very high
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Over colour
- Brown
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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