Ontario
syn. Ontarioapfel
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by Charles Arnold at Paris, Ontario, Canada in about 1820. Received the Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1898. Fruits have crisp, juicy flesh with a subacid flavour. Cooks well, breaking up completely. Tends to bruise easily.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid sweet
- Ribbing
- prominent ribs base to apex
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 69-76 mm
- Over colour
- flushed brownish red, mottled red
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 51-57 mm
- Flesh texture
- rather coarse, soft
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Ribbing
- strong
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- mottled/washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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