Nugget
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Discovered in 1954 by Homer S. Kemp, Bountiful Ridge Nurseries, Princess Anne, Maryland, USA. It was introduced in 1966. Fruits are sweet, crisp and juicy with a good aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 12th May (10%) · 16th May (full) · 22nd May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Globose
- Width
- 58.76 mm
- Height
- 50.97 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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