Opalescent
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Introduced in 1899 by McNary & Gaines, Xenia, Ohio, USA. Fruits have firm, fairly crisp flesh with a sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Conical
- Width
- 76.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 69.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Greasiness
- Strong
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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