Old Somerset Russet
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Received by NFT 1949 (but much older). From Berkshire, Wokingham, England. Grown by Pope Bros., nurserymen.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 11th May (10%) · 17th May (full) · 25th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Flat
- Width
- 60.00 mm
- Height
- 49.00 mm
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Flesh colour
- Greenish
Source · National Fruit Collection
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