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Old Fred

Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession

Raised at Eynsham, Oxford by F.W. Wastie. Exhibited in 1944. Fruits have firm, fine, creamy white flesh with a subacid flavour.

Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Picking time
Late October
Flowering
7th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
Size
medium
Type
Dessert
Shape
Broad globose conical
Width
63.00 mm
Height
44.00 mm
Russet
very low
Ribbing
weak
Firmness
firm
Coarseness
fine
Over colour
Orange
Flesh colour
Cream
Ground colour
Whitish yellow

Source · National Fruit Collection

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