Orange Goff
syn. Ackland Vale, Goff, Kentish Orange Goff, Park Apple, Pork Apple, Top, Top Apple
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Thought to have originated in Kent, England. Recorded in 1842. Fruits have firm, crisp, yellow flesh with an acid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 2nd May (10%) · 6th May (full) · 14th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- acid
- Ribbing
- not ribbed
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 76 mm
- Over colour
- flushed and striped red
- Russet type
- a little russet
- Flesh colour
- yellow
- Fruit height
- 63 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- Ground colour
- yellow tinged green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- very weak
- Shape
- Globose
- Width
- 72.53 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 59.53 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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